待ち合わせる (machiawaseru) conjugation
to rendezvous, to meet at a prearranged place and time
待ち合わせる (まちあわせる, machiawaseru) 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 | 待ち合わせる machiawaseru | 待ち合わせます machiawasemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 待ち合わせない machiawasenai | 待ち合わせません machiawasemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 待ち合わせた machiawaseta | 待ち合わせました machiawasemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 待ち合わせなかった machiawasenakatta | 待ち合わせませんでした machiawasemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 待ち合わせて machiawasete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 待ち合わせている machiawaseteiru | 待ち合わせています machiawaseteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 待ち合わせたい machiawasetai | 待ち合わせたいです machiawasetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 待ち合わせよう machiawaseyou | 待ち合わせましょう machiawasemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 待ち合わせられる machiawaserareru | 待ち合わせられます machiawaseraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 待ち合わせられる machiawaserareru | 待ち合わせられます machiawaseraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 待ち合わせさせる machiawasesaseru | 待ち合わせさせます machiawasesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 待ち合わせさせられる machiawasesaserareru | 待ち合わせさせられます machiawasesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 待ち合わせろ machiawasero | 待ち合わせてください machiawasetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 待ち合わせるな machiawaseruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 待ち合わせれば machiawasereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 待ち合わせたら machiawasetara | — | “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.