呼び掛ける (yobikakeru) conjugation
to call out to, to accost, to address (crowd), to appeal
呼び掛ける (よびかける, yobikakeru) 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 | 呼び掛ける yobikakeru | 呼び掛けます yobikakemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 呼び掛けない yobikakenai | 呼び掛けません yobikakemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 呼び掛けた yobikaketa | 呼び掛けました yobikakemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 呼び掛けなかった yobikakenakatta | 呼び掛けませんでした yobikakemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 呼び掛けて yobikakete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 呼び掛けている yobikaketeiru | 呼び掛けています yobikaketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 呼び掛けたい yobikaketai | 呼び掛けたいです yobikaketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 呼び掛けよう yobikakeyou | 呼び掛けましょう yobikakemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 呼び掛けられる yobikakerareru | 呼び掛けられます yobikakeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 呼び掛けられる yobikakerareru | 呼び掛けられます yobikakeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 呼び掛けさせる yobikakesaseru | 呼び掛けさせます yobikakesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 呼び掛けさせられる yobikakesaserareru | 呼び掛けさせられます yobikakesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 呼び掛けろ yobikakero | 呼び掛けてください yobikaketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 呼び掛けるな yobikakeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 呼び掛ければ yobikakereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 呼び掛けたら yobikaketara | — | “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.