焼ける (yakeru) conjugation
to burn, to be roasted
焼ける (やける, yakeru) 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 | 焼ける yakeru | 焼けます yakemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 焼けない yakenai | 焼けません yakemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 焼けた yaketa | 焼けました yakemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 焼けなかった yakenakatta | 焼けませんでした yakemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 焼けて yakete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 焼けている yaketeiru | 焼けています yaketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 焼けたい yaketai | 焼けたいです yaketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 焼けよう yakeyou | 焼けましょう yakemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 焼けられる yakerareru | 焼けられます yakeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 焼けられる yakerareru | 焼けられます yakeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 焼けさせる yakesaseru | 焼けさせます yakesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 焼けさせられる yakesaserareru | 焼けさせられます yakesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 焼けろ yakero | 焼けてください yaketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 焼けるな yakeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 焼ければ yakereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 焼けたら yaketara | — | “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.
