受け継ぐ (uketsugu) conjugation
to inherit, to succeed
受け継ぐ (うけつぐ, uketsugu) is a godan verb. Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば. 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 | 受け継ぐ uketsugu | 受け継ぎます uketsugimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 受け継がない uketsuganai | 受け継ぎません uketsugimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 受け継いだ uketsuida | 受け継ぎました uketsugimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 受け継がなかった uketsuganakatta | 受け継ぎませんでした uketsugimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 受け継いで uketsuide | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 受け継いでいる uketsuideiru | 受け継いでいます uketsuideimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 受け継ぎたい uketsugitai | 受け継ぎたいです uketsugitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 受け継ごう uketsugou | 受け継ぎましょう uketsugimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 受け継げる uketsugeru | 受け継げます uketsugemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 受け継がれる uketsugareru | 受け継がれます uketsugaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 受け継がせる uketsugaseru | 受け継がせます uketsugasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 受け継がされる uketsugasareru | 受け継がされます uketsugasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 受け継げ uketsuge | 受け継いでください uketsuidekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 受け継ぐな uketsuguna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 受け継げば uketsugeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 受け継いだら uketsuidara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.