具える (sonaeru) conjugation
to be furnished with
具える (そなえる, sonaeru) 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 | 具える sonaeru | 具えます sonaemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 具えない sonaenai | 具えません sonaemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 具えた sonaeta | 具えました sonaemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 具えなかった sonaenakatta | 具えませんでした sonaemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 具えて sonaete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 具えている sonaeteiru | 具えています sonaeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 具えたい sonaetai | 具えたいです sonaetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 具えよう sonaeyou | 具えましょう sonaemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 具えられる sonaerareru | 具えられます sonaeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 具えられる sonaerareru | 具えられます sonaeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 具えさせる sonaesaseru | 具えさせます sonaesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 具えさせられる sonaesaserareru | 具えさせられます sonaesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 具えろ sonaero | 具えてください sonaetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 具えるな sonaeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 具えれば sonaereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 具えたら sonaetara | — | “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.