集める (atsumeru) conjugation
to collect, to gather (v.t.), to assemble
集める (あつめる, atsumeru) 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 | 集める atsumeru | 集めます atsumemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 集めない atsumenai | 集めません atsumemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 集めた atsumeta | 集めました atsumemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 集めなかった atsumenakatta | 集めませんでした atsumemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 集めて atsumete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 集めている atsumeteiru | 集めています atsumeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 集めたい atsumetai | 集めたいです atsumetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 集めよう atsumeyou | 集めましょう atsumemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 集められる atsumerareru | 集められます atsumeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 集められる atsumerareru | 集められます atsumeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 集めさせる atsumesaseru | 集めさせます atsumesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 集めさせられる atsumesaserareru | 集めさせられます atsumesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 集めろ atsumero | 集めてください atsumetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 集めるな atsumeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 集めれば atsumereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 集めたら atsumetara | — | “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.
