育てる (sodateru) conjugation
to raise (v.t.); to bring up
育てる (そだてる, sodateru) 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 | 育てる sodateru | 育てます sodatemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 育てない sodatenai | 育てません sodatemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 育てた sodateta | 育てました sodatemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 育てなかった sodatenakatta | 育てませんでした sodatemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 育てて sodatete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 育てている sodateteiru | 育てています sodateteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 育てたい sodatetai | 育てたいです sodatetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 育てよう sodateyou | 育てましょう sodatemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 育てられる sodaterareru | 育てられます sodateraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 育てられる sodaterareru | 育てられます sodateraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 育てさせる sodatesaseru | 育てさせます sodatesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 育てさせられる sodatesaserareru | 育てさせられます sodatesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 育てろ sodatero | 育ててください sodatetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 育てるな sodateruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 育てれば sodatereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 育てたら sodatetara | — | “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.