結び付ける (musubitsukeru) conjugation
to combine, to join, to tie on, to attach with a knot
結び付ける (むすびつける, musubitsukeru) 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 | 結び付ける musubitsukeru | 結び付けます musubitsukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 結び付けない musubitsukenai | 結び付けません musubitsukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 結び付けた musubitsuketa | 結び付けました musubitsukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 結び付けなかった musubitsukenakatta | 結び付けませんでした musubitsukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 結び付けて musubitsukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 結び付けている musubitsuketeiru | 結び付けています musubitsuketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 結び付けたい musubitsuketai | 結び付けたいです musubitsuketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 結び付けよう musubitsukeyou | 結び付けましょう musubitsukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 結び付けられる musubitsukerareru | 結び付けられます musubitsukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 結び付けられる musubitsukerareru | 結び付けられます musubitsukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 結び付けさせる musubitsukesaseru | 結び付けさせます musubitsukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 結び付けさせられる musubitsukesaserareru | 結び付けさせられます musubitsukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 結び付けろ musubitsukero | 結び付けてください musubitsuketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 結び付けるな musubitsukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 結び付ければ musubitsukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 結び付けたら musubitsuketara | — | “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.