言い付ける (iitsukeru) conjugation
to tell, to order
言い付ける (いいつける, iitsukeru) 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 | 言い付ける iitsukeru | 言い付けます iitsukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 言い付けない iitsukenai | 言い付けません iitsukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 言い付けた iitsuketa | 言い付けました iitsukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 言い付けなかった iitsukenakatta | 言い付けませんでした iitsukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 言い付けて iitsukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 言い付けている iitsuketeiru | 言い付けています iitsuketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 言い付けたい iitsuketai | 言い付けたいです iitsuketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 言い付けよう iitsukeyou | 言い付けましょう iitsukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 言い付けられる iitsukerareru | 言い付けられます iitsukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 言い付けられる iitsukerareru | 言い付けられます iitsukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 言い付けさせる iitsukesaseru | 言い付けさせます iitsukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 言い付けさせられる iitsukesaserareru | 言い付けさせられます iitsukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 言い付けろ iitsukero | 言い付けてください iitsuketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 言い付けるな iitsukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 言い付ければ iitsukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 言い付けたら iitsuketara | — | “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.