交える (majieru) conjugation
to mix, to converse with, to cross (swords)
交える (まじえる, majieru) 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 | 交える majieru | 交えます majiemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 交えない majienai | 交えません majiemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 交えた majieta | 交えました majiemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 交えなかった majienakatta | 交えませんでした majiemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 交えて majiete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 交えている majieteiru | 交えています majieteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 交えたい majietai | 交えたいです majietaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 交えよう majieyou | 交えましょう majiemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 交えられる majierareru | 交えられます majieraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 交えられる majierareru | 交えられます majieraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 交えさせる majiesaseru | 交えさせます majiesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 交えさせられる majiesaserareru | 交えさせられます majiesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 交えろ majiero | 交えてください majietekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 交えるな majieruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 交えれば majiereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 交えたら majietara | — | “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.