訴える (uttaeru) conjugation
to complain, to appeal, to sue (a person)
訴える (うったえる, uttaeru) 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 | 訴える uttaeru | 訴えます uttaemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 訴えない uttaenai | 訴えません uttaemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 訴えた uttaeta | 訴えました uttaemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 訴えなかった uttaenakatta | 訴えませんでした uttaemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 訴えて uttaete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 訴えている uttaeteiru | 訴えています uttaeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 訴えたい uttaetai | 訴えたいです uttaetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 訴えよう uttaeyou | 訴えましょう uttaemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 訴えられる uttaerareru | 訴えられます uttaeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 訴えられる uttaerareru | 訴えられます uttaeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 訴えさせる uttaesaseru | 訴えさせます uttaesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 訴えさせられる uttaesaserareru | 訴えさせられます uttaesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 訴えろ uttaero | 訴えてください uttaetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 訴えるな uttaeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 訴えれば uttaereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 訴えたら uttaetara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
🔊 Tap any Japanese word to hear it spoken.
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.