数える (kazoeru) conjugation
to count
数える (かぞえる, kazoeru) 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 | 数える kazoeru | 数えます kazoemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 数えない kazoenai | 数えません kazoemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 数えた kazoeta | 数えました kazoemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 数えなかった kazoenakatta | 数えませんでした kazoemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 数えて kazoete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 数えている kazoeteiru | 数えています kazoeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 数えたい kazoetai | 数えたいです kazoetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 数えよう kazoeyou | 数えましょう kazoemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 数えられる kazoerareru | 数えられます kazoeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 数えられる kazoerareru | 数えられます kazoeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 数えさせる kazoesaseru | 数えさせます kazoesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 数えさせられる kazoesaserareru | 数えさせられます kazoesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 数えろ kazoero | 数えてください kazoetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 数えるな kazoeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 数えれば kazoereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 数えたら kazoetara | — | “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.