近付ける (chikazukeru) conjugation
to bring near, to put close, to let come near
近付ける (ちかづける, chikazukeru) 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 | 近付ける chikazukeru | 近付けます chikazukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 近付けない chikazukenai | 近付けません chikazukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 近付けた chikazuketa | 近付けました chikazukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 近付けなかった chikazukenakatta | 近付けませんでした chikazukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 近付けて chikazukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 近付けている chikazuketeiru | 近付けています chikazuketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 近付けたい chikazuketai | 近付けたいです chikazuketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 近付けよう chikazukeyou | 近付けましょう chikazukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 近付けられる chikazukerareru | 近付けられます chikazukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 近付けられる chikazukerareru | 近付けられます chikazukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 近付けさせる chikazukesaseru | 近付けさせます chikazukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 近付けさせられる chikazukesaserareru | 近付けさせられます chikazukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 近付けろ chikazukero | 近付けてください chikazuketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 近付けるな chikazukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 近付ければ chikazukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 近付けたら chikazuketara | — | “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.