構える (kamaeru) conjugation
to set up
構える (かまえる, kamaeru) 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 | 構える kamaeru | 構えます kamaemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 構えない kamaenai | 構えません kamaemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 構えた kamaeta | 構えました kamaemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 構えなかった kamaenakatta | 構えませんでした kamaemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 構えて kamaete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 構えている kamaeteiru | 構えています kamaeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 構えたい kamaetai | 構えたいです kamaetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 構えよう kamaeyou | 構えましょう kamaemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 構えられる kamaerareru | 構えられます kamaeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 構えられる kamaerareru | 構えられます kamaeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 構えさせる kamaesaseru | 構えさせます kamaesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 構えさせられる kamaesaserareru | 構えさせられます kamaesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 構えろ kamaero | 構えてください kamaetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 構えるな kamaeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 構えれば kamaereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 構えたら kamaetara | — | “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.