押し寄せる (oshiyoseru) conjugation
to push aside, to advance on
押し寄せる (おしよせる, oshiyoseru) 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 | 押し寄せる oshiyoseru | 押し寄せます oshiyosemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 押し寄せない oshiyosenai | 押し寄せません oshiyosemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 押し寄せた oshiyoseta | 押し寄せました oshiyosemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 押し寄せなかった oshiyosenakatta | 押し寄せませんでした oshiyosemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 押し寄せて oshiyosete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 押し寄せている oshiyoseteiru | 押し寄せています oshiyoseteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 押し寄せたい oshiyosetai | 押し寄せたいです oshiyosetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 押し寄せよう oshiyoseyou | 押し寄せましょう oshiyosemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 押し寄せられる oshiyoserareru | 押し寄せられます oshiyoseraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 押し寄せられる oshiyoserareru | 押し寄せられます oshiyoseraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 押し寄せさせる oshiyosesaseru | 押し寄せさせます oshiyosesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 押し寄せさせられる oshiyosesaserareru | 押し寄せさせられます oshiyosesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 押し寄せろ oshiyosero | 押し寄せてください oshiyosetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 押し寄せるな oshiyoseruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 押し寄せれば oshiyosereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 押し寄せたら oshiyosetara | — | “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.