焼く (yaku) conjugation
to bake, to grill
焼く (やく, yaku) 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 | 焼く yaku | 焼きます yakimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 焼かない yakanai | 焼きません yakimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 焼いた yaita | 焼きました yakimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 焼かなかった yakanakatta | 焼きませんでした yakimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 焼いて yaite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 焼いている yaiteiru | 焼いています yaiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 焼きたい yakitai | 焼きたいです yakitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 焼こう yakou | 焼きましょう yakimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 焼ける yakeru | 焼けます yakemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 焼かれる yakareru | 焼かれます yakaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 焼かせる yakaseru | 焼かせます yakasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 焼かされる yakasareru | 焼かされます yakasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 焼け yake | 焼いてください yaitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 焼くな yakuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 焼けば yakeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 焼いたら yaitara | — | “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.