受け止める (uketomeru) conjugation
to catch, to react to, to take
受け止める (うけとめる, uketomeru) is an ichidan verb. Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes. Every form below is tappable — hear it, then say it back.
Conjugation table
| Form | Plain (casual) | Polite (~ます) | When you use it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dictionary / plain | 受け止める uketomeru | 受け止めます uketomemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 受け止めない uketomenai | 受け止めません uketomemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 受け止めた uketometa | 受け止めました uketomemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 受け止めなかった uketomenakatta | 受け止めませんでした uketomemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 受け止めて uketomete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 受け止めている uketometeiru | 受け止めています uketometeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 受け止めたい uketometai | 受け止めたいです uketometaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 受け止めよう uketomeyou | 受け止めましょう uketomemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 受け止められる uketomerareru | 受け止められます uketomeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 受け止められる uketomerareru | 受け止められます uketomeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 受け止めさせる uketomesaseru | 受け止めさせます uketomesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 受け止めさせられる uketomesaserareru | 受け止めさせられます uketomesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 受け止めろ uketomero | 受け止めてください uketometekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 受け止めるな uketomeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 受け止めれば uketomereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 受け止めたら uketometara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.