込める (komeru) conjugation
to include, to put into
込める (こめる, komeru) 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 | 込める komeru | 込めます komemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 込めない komenai | 込めません komemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 込めた kometa | 込めました komemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 込めなかった komenakatta | 込めませんでした komemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 込めて komete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 込めている kometeiru | 込めています kometeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 込めたい kometai | 込めたいです kometaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 込めよう komeyou | 込めましょう komemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 込められる komerareru | 込められます komeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 込められる komerareru | 込められます komeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 込めさせる komesaseru | 込めさせます komesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 込めさせられる komesaserareru | 込めさせられます komesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 込めろ komero | 込めてください kometekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 込めるな komeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 込めれば komereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 込めたら kometara | — | “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.