片付ける (katazukeru) conjugation
to (clean) tidy up (v.t.), to put away
片付ける (かたづける, katazukeru) 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 | 片付ける katazukeru | 片付けます katazukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 片付けない katazukenai | 片付けません katazukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 片付けた katazuketa | 片付けました katazukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 片付けなかった katazukenakatta | 片付けませんでした katazukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 片付けて katazukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 片付けている katazuketeiru | 片付けています katazuketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 片付けたい katazuketai | 片付けたいです katazuketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 片付けよう katazukeyou | 片付けましょう katazukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 片付けられる katazukerareru | 片付けられます katazukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 片付けられる katazukerareru | 片付けられます katazukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 片付けさせる katazukesaseru | 片付けさせます katazukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 片付けさせられる katazukesaserareru | 片付けさせられます katazukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 片付けろ katazukero | 片付けてください katazuketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 片付けるな katazukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 片付ければ katazukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 片付けたら katazuketara | — | “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.