当てはめる (atehameru) conjugation
to apply, to adapt
当てはめる (あてはめる, atehameru) 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 | 当てはめる atehameru | 当てはめます atehamemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 当てはめない atehamenai | 当てはめません atehamemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 当てはめた atehameta | 当てはめました atehamemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 当てはめなかった atehamenakatta | 当てはめませんでした atehamemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 当てはめて atehamete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 当てはめている atehameteiru | 当てはめています atehameteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 当てはめたい atehametai | 当てはめたいです atehametaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 当てはめよう atehameyou | 当てはめましょう atehamemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 当てはめられる atehamerareru | 当てはめられます atehameraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 当てはめられる atehamerareru | 当てはめられます atehameraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 当てはめさせる atehamesaseru | 当てはめさせます atehamesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 当てはめさせられる atehamesaserareru | 当てはめさせられます atehamesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 当てはめろ atehamero | 当てはめてください atehametekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 当てはめるな atehameruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 当てはめれば atehamereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 当てはめたら atehametara | — | “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.
