撫でる (naderu) conjugation
to brush gently, to stroke
撫でる (なでる, naderu) 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 | 撫でる naderu | 撫でます nademasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 撫でない nadenai | 撫でません nademasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 撫でた nadeta | 撫でました nademashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 撫でなかった nadenakatta | 撫でませんでした nademasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 撫でて nadete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 撫でている nadeteiru | 撫でています nadeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 撫でたい nadetai | 撫でたいです nadetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 撫でよう nadeyou | 撫でましょう nademashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 撫でられる naderareru | 撫でられます naderaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 撫でられる naderareru | 撫でられます naderaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 撫でさせる nadesaseru | 撫でさせます nadesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 撫でさせられる nadesaserareru | 撫でさせられます nadesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 撫でろ nadero | 撫でてください nadetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 撫でるな naderuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 撫でれば nadereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 撫でたら nadetara | — | “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.