受け付ける (uketsukeru) conjugation
to be accepted, to receive (an application)
受け付ける (うけつける, uketsukeru) 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 | 受け付ける uketsukeru | 受け付けます uketsukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 受け付けない uketsukenai | 受け付けません uketsukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 受け付けた uketsuketa | 受け付けました uketsukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 受け付けなかった uketsukenakatta | 受け付けませんでした uketsukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 受け付けて uketsukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 受け付けている uketsuketeiru | 受け付けています uketsuketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 受け付けたい uketsuketai | 受け付けたいです uketsuketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 受け付けよう uketsukeyou | 受け付けましょう uketsukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 受け付けられる uketsukerareru | 受け付けられます uketsukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 受け付けられる uketsukerareru | 受け付けられます uketsukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 受け付けさせる uketsukesaseru | 受け付けさせます uketsukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 受け付けさせられる uketsukesaserareru | 受け付けさせられます uketsukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 受け付けろ uketsukero | 受け付けてください uketsuketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 受け付けるな uketsukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 受け付ければ uketsukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 受け付けたら uketsuketara | — | “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.