備え付ける (sonaetsukeru) conjugation
to provide, to equip, to install
備え付ける (そなえつける, sonaetsukeru) 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 | 備え付ける sonaetsukeru | 備え付けます sonaetsukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 備え付けない sonaetsukenai | 備え付けません sonaetsukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 備え付けた sonaetsuketa | 備え付けました sonaetsukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 備え付けなかった sonaetsukenakatta | 備え付けませんでした sonaetsukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 備え付けて sonaetsukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 備え付けている sonaetsuketeiru | 備え付けています sonaetsuketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 備え付けたい sonaetsuketai | 備え付けたいです sonaetsuketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 備え付けよう sonaetsukeyou | 備え付けましょう sonaetsukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 備え付けられる sonaetsukerareru | 備え付けられます sonaetsukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 備え付けられる sonaetsukerareru | 備え付けられます sonaetsukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 備え付けさせる sonaetsukesaseru | 備え付けさせます sonaetsukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 備え付けさせられる sonaetsukesaserareru | 備え付けさせられます sonaetsukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 備え付けろ sonaetsukero | 備え付けてください sonaetsuketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 備え付けるな sonaetsukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 備え付ければ sonaetsukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 備え付けたら sonaetsuketara | — | “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.