叶える (kanaeru) conjugation
to grant (request, wish)
叶える (かなえる, kanaeru) 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 | 叶える kanaeru | 叶えます kanaemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 叶えない kanaenai | 叶えません kanaemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 叶えた kanaeta | 叶えました kanaemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 叶えなかった kanaenakatta | 叶えませんでした kanaemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 叶えて kanaete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 叶えている kanaeteiru | 叶えています kanaeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 叶えたい kanaetai | 叶えたいです kanaetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 叶えよう kanaeyou | 叶えましょう kanaemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 叶えられる kanaerareru | 叶えられます kanaeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 叶えられる kanaerareru | 叶えられます kanaeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 叶えさせる kanaesaseru | 叶えさせます kanaesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 叶えさせられる kanaesaserareru | 叶えさせられます kanaesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 叶えろ kanaero | 叶えてください kanaetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 叶えるな kanaeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 叶えれば kanaereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 叶えたら kanaetara | — | “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.
