添える (soeru) conjugation
to add to, to attach, to accompany
添える (そえる, soeru) 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 | 添える soeru | 添えます soemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 添えない soenai | 添えません soemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 添えた soeta | 添えました soemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 添えなかった soenakatta | 添えませんでした soemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 添えて soete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 添えている soeteiru | 添えています soeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 添えたい soetai | 添えたいです soetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 添えよう soeyou | 添えましょう soemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 添えられる soerareru | 添えられます soeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 添えられる soerareru | 添えられます soeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 添えさせる soesaseru | 添えさせます soesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 添えさせられる soesaserareru | 添えさせられます soesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 添えろ soero | 添えてください soetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 添えるな soeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 添えれば soereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 添えたら soetara | — | “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.