乗せる (noseru) conjugation
to place on (something), to take on board
乗せる (のせる, noseru) 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 | 乗せる noseru | 乗せます nosemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 乗せない nosenai | 乗せません nosemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 乗せた noseta | 乗せました nosemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 乗せなかった nosenakatta | 乗せませんでした nosemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 乗せて nosete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 乗せている noseteiru | 乗せています noseteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 乗せたい nosetai | 乗せたいです nosetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 乗せよう noseyou | 乗せましょう nosemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 乗せられる noserareru | 乗せられます noseraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 乗せられる noserareru | 乗せられます noseraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 乗せさせる nosesaseru | 乗せさせます nosesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 乗せさせられる nosesaserareru | 乗せさせられます nosesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 乗せろ nosero | 乗せてください nosetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 乗せるな noseruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 乗せれば nosereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 乗せたら nosetara | — | “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.