踏まえる (fumaeru) conjugation
to be based on, to have origin in
踏まえる (ふまえる, fumaeru) 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 | 踏まえる fumaeru | 踏まえます fumaemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 踏まえない fumaenai | 踏まえません fumaemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 踏まえた fumaeta | 踏まえました fumaemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 踏まえなかった fumaenakatta | 踏まえませんでした fumaemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 踏まえて fumaete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 踏まえている fumaeteiru | 踏まえています fumaeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 踏まえたい fumaetai | 踏まえたいです fumaetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 踏まえよう fumaeyou | 踏まえましょう fumaemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 踏まえられる fumaerareru | 踏まえられます fumaeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 踏まえられる fumaerareru | 踏まえられます fumaeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 踏まえさせる fumaesaseru | 踏まえさせます fumaesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 踏まえさせられる fumaesaserareru | 踏まえさせられます fumaesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 踏まえろ fumaero | 踏まえてください fumaetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 踏まえるな fumaeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 踏まえれば fumaereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 踏まえたら fumaetara | — | “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.
