押える (osaeru) conjugation
to stop, to restrain, to press down
押える (おさえる, osaeru) 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 | 押える osaeru | 押えます osaemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 押えない osaenai | 押えません osaemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 押えた osaeta | 押えました osaemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 押えなかった osaenakatta | 押えませんでした osaemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 押えて osaete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 押えている osaeteiru | 押えています osaeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 押えたい osaetai | 押えたいです osaetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 押えよう osaeyou | 押えましょう osaemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 押えられる osaerareru | 押えられます osaeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 押えられる osaerareru | 押えられます osaeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 押えさせる osaesaseru | 押えさせます osaesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 押えさせられる osaesaserareru | 押えさせられます osaesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 押えろ osaero | 押えてください osaetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 押えるな osaeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 押えれば osaereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 押えたら osaetara | — | “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.
