組み合わせる (kumiawaseru) conjugation
to join together, to combine, to join up
組み合わせる (くみあわせる, kumiawaseru) 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 | 組み合わせる kumiawaseru | 組み合わせます kumiawasemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 組み合わせない kumiawasenai | 組み合わせません kumiawasemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 組み合わせた kumiawaseta | 組み合わせました kumiawasemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 組み合わせなかった kumiawasenakatta | 組み合わせませんでした kumiawasemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 組み合わせて kumiawasete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 組み合わせている kumiawaseteiru | 組み合わせています kumiawaseteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 組み合わせたい kumiawasetai | 組み合わせたいです kumiawasetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 組み合わせよう kumiawaseyou | 組み合わせましょう kumiawasemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 組み合わせられる kumiawaserareru | 組み合わせられます kumiawaseraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 組み合わせられる kumiawaserareru | 組み合わせられます kumiawaseraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 組み合わせさせる kumiawasesaseru | 組み合わせさせます kumiawasesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 組み合わせさせられる kumiawasesaserareru | 組み合わせさせられます kumiawasesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 組み合わせろ kumiawasero | 組み合わせてください kumiawasetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 組み合わせるな kumiawaseruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 組み合わせれば kumiawasereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 組み合わせたら kumiawasetara | — | “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.