片付く (katazuku) conjugation
to put in order, to solve
片付く (かたづく, katazuku) is a godan verb. Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば. 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 | 片付く katazuku | 片付きます katazukimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 片付かない katazukanai | 片付きません katazukimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 片付いた katazuita | 片付きました katazukimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 片付かなかった katazukanakatta | 片付きませんでした katazukimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 片付いて katazuite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 片付いている katazuiteiru | 片付いています katazuiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 片付きたい katazukitai | 片付きたいです katazukitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 片付こう katazukou | 片付きましょう katazukimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 片付ける katazukeru | 片付けます katazukemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 片付かれる katazukareru | 片付かれます katazukaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 片付かせる katazukaseru | 片付かせます katazukasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 片付かされる katazukasareru | 片付かされます katazukasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 片付け katazuke | 片付いてください katazuitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 片付くな katazukuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 片付けば katazukeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 片付いたら katazuitara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.