曲げる (mageru) conjugation
to bend, to crook, to lean
曲げる (まげる, mageru) 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 | 曲げる mageru | 曲げます magemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 曲げない magenai | 曲げません magemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 曲げた mageta | 曲げました magemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 曲げなかった magenakatta | 曲げませんでした magemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 曲げて magete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 曲げている mageteiru | 曲げています mageteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 曲げたい magetai | 曲げたいです magetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 曲げよう mageyou | 曲げましょう magemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 曲げられる magerareru | 曲げられます mageraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 曲げられる magerareru | 曲げられます mageraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 曲げさせる magesaseru | 曲げさせます magesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 曲げさせられる magesaserareru | 曲げさせられます magesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 曲げろ magero | 曲げてください magetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 曲げるな mageruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 曲げれば magereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 曲げたら magetara | — | “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.