着せる (kiseru) conjugation
to put on clothes
着せる (きせる, kiseru) 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 | 着せる kiseru | 着せます kisemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 着せない kisenai | 着せません kisemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 着せた kiseta | 着せました kisemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 着せなかった kisenakatta | 着せませんでした kisemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 着せて kisete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 着せている kiseteiru | 着せています kiseteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 着せたい kisetai | 着せたいです kisetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 着せよう kiseyou | 着せましょう kisemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 着せられる kiserareru | 着せられます kiseraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 着せられる kiserareru | 着せられます kiseraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 着せさせる kisesaseru | 着せさせます kisesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 着せさせられる kisesaserareru | 着せさせられます kisesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 着せろ kisero | 着せてください kisetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 着せるな kiseruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 着せれば kisereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 着せたら kisetara | — | “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.