言付ける (kotozukeru) conjugation
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言付ける (ことづける, kotozukeru) 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 | 言付ける kotozukeru | 言付けます kotozukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 言付けない kotozukenai | 言付けません kotozukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 言付けた kotozuketa | 言付けました kotozukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 言付けなかった kotozukenakatta | 言付けませんでした kotozukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 言付けて kotozukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 言付けている kotozuketeiru | 言付けています kotozuketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 言付けたい kotozuketai | 言付けたいです kotozuketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 言付けよう kotozukeyou | 言付けましょう kotozukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 言付けられる kotozukerareru | 言付けられます kotozukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 言付けられる kotozukerareru | 言付けられます kotozukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 言付けさせる kotozukesaseru | 言付けさせます kotozukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 言付けさせられる kotozukesaserareru | 言付けさせられます kotozukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 言付けろ kotozukero | 言付けてください kotozuketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 言付けるな kotozukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 言付ければ kotozukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 言付けたら kotozuketara | — | “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.