合わせる (awaseru) conjugation
to combine
合わせる (あわせる, awaseru) 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 | 合わせる awaseru | 合わせます awasemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 合わせない awasenai | 合わせません awasemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 合わせた awaseta | 合わせました awasemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 合わせなかった awasenakatta | 合わせませんでした awasemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 合わせて awasete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 合わせている awaseteiru | 合わせています awaseteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 合わせたい awasetai | 合わせたいです awasetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 合わせよう awaseyou | 合わせましょう awasemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 合わせられる awaserareru | 合わせられます awaseraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 合わせられる awaserareru | 合わせられます awaseraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 合わせさせる awasesaseru | 合わせさせます awasesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 合わせさせられる awasesaserareru | 合わせさせられます awasesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 合わせろ awasero | 合わせてください awasetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 合わせるな awaseruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 合わせれば awasereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 合わせたら awasetara | — | “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.