仕立てる (shitateru) conjugation
to tailor, to make, to prepare
仕立てる (したてる, shitateru) 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 | 仕立てる shitateru | 仕立てます shitatemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 仕立てない shitatenai | 仕立てません shitatemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 仕立てた shitateta | 仕立てました shitatemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 仕立てなかった shitatenakatta | 仕立てませんでした shitatemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 仕立てて shitatete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 仕立てている shitateteiru | 仕立てています shitateteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 仕立てたい shitatetai | 仕立てたいです shitatetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 仕立てよう shitateyou | 仕立てましょう shitatemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 仕立てられる shitaterareru | 仕立てられます shitateraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 仕立てられる shitaterareru | 仕立てられます shitateraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 仕立てさせる shitatesaseru | 仕立てさせます shitatesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 仕立てさせられる shitatesaserareru | 仕立てさせられます shitatesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 仕立てろ shitatero | 仕立ててください shitatetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 仕立てるな shitateruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 仕立てれば shitatereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 仕立てたら shitatetara | — | “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.