結び付く (musubitsuku) conjugation
to be connected or related, to join together
結び付く (むすびつく, musubitsuku) is a godan verb. Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば. 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 | 結び付く musubitsuku | 結び付きます musubitsukimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 結び付かない musubitsukanai | 結び付きません musubitsukimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 結び付いた musubitsuita | 結び付きました musubitsukimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 結び付かなかった musubitsukanakatta | 結び付きませんでした musubitsukimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 結び付いて musubitsuite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 結び付いている musubitsuiteiru | 結び付いています musubitsuiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 結び付きたい musubitsukitai | 結び付きたいです musubitsukitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 結び付こう musubitsukou | 結び付きましょう musubitsukimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 結び付ける musubitsukeru | 結び付けます musubitsukemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 結び付かれる musubitsukareru | 結び付かれます musubitsukaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 結び付かせる musubitsukaseru | 結び付かせます musubitsukasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 結び付かされる musubitsukasareru | 結び付かされます musubitsukasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 結び付け musubitsuke | 結び付いてください musubitsuitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 結び付くな musubitsukuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 結び付けば musubitsukeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 結び付いたら musubitsuitara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.