並べる (naraberu) conjugation
to put (things) side by side; to line up
並べる (ならべる, naraberu) 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 | 並べる naraberu | 並べます narabemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 並べない narabenai | 並べません narabemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 並べた narabeta | 並べました narabemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 並べなかった narabenakatta | 並べませんでした narabemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 並べて narabete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 並べている narabeteiru | 並べています narabeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 並べたい narabetai | 並べたいです narabetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 並べよう narabeyou | 並べましょう narabemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 並べられる naraberareru | 並べられます naraberaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 並べられる naraberareru | 並べられます naraberaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 並べさせる narabesaseru | 並べさせます narabesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 並べさせられる narabesaserareru | 並べさせられます narabesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 並べろ narabero | 並べてください narabetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 並べるな naraberuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 並べれば narabereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 並べたら narabetara | — | “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.