しつける (shitsukeru) conjugation
to discipline, to teach manners
しつける (しつける, shitsukeru) 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.
Written 躾ける in kanji, but usually written in kana alone.
Conjugation table
| Form | Plain (casual) | Polite (~ます) | When you use it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dictionary / plain | しつける shitsukeru | しつけます shitsukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | しつけない shitsukenai | しつけません shitsukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | しつけた shitsuketa | しつけました shitsukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | しつけなかった shitsukenakatta | しつけませんでした shitsukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | しつけて shitsukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | しつけている shitsuketeiru | しつけています shitsuketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | しつけたい shitsuketai | しつけたいです shitsuketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | しつけよう shitsukeyou | しつけましょう shitsukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | しつけられる shitsukerareru | しつけられます shitsukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | しつけられる shitsukerareru | しつけられます shitsukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | しつけさせる shitsukesaseru | しつけさせます shitsukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | しつけさせられる shitsukesaserareru | しつけさせられます shitsukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | しつけろ shitsukero | しつけてください shitsuketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | しつけるな shitsukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | しつければ shitsukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | しつけたら shitsuketara | — | “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.