重ねる (kasaneru) conjugation
to pile up, to put something on another, to heap up
重ねる (かさねる, kasaneru) 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 | 重ねる kasaneru | 重ねます kasanemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 重ねない kasanenai | 重ねません kasanemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 重ねた kasaneta | 重ねました kasanemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 重ねなかった kasanenakatta | 重ねませんでした kasanemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 重ねて kasanete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 重ねている kasaneteiru | 重ねています kasaneteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 重ねたい kasanetai | 重ねたいです kasanetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 重ねよう kasaneyou | 重ねましょう kasanemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 重ねられる kasanerareru | 重ねられます kasaneraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 重ねられる kasanerareru | 重ねられます kasaneraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 重ねさせる kasanesaseru | 重ねさせます kasanesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 重ねさせられる kasanesaserareru | 重ねさせられます kasanesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 重ねろ kasanero | 重ねてください kasanetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 重ねるな kasaneruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 重ねれば kasanereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 重ねたら kasanetara | — | “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.
