揃える (soroeru) conjugation
to put things in order, to arrange
揃える (そろえる, soroeru) 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 | 揃える soroeru | 揃えます soroemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 揃えない soroenai | 揃えません soroemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 揃えた soroeta | 揃えました soroemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 揃えなかった soroenakatta | 揃えませんでした soroemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 揃えて soroete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 揃えている soroeteiru | 揃えています soroeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 揃えたい soroetai | 揃えたいです soroetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 揃えよう soroeyou | 揃えましょう soroemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 揃えられる soroerareru | 揃えられます soroeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 揃えられる soroerareru | 揃えられます soroeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 揃えさせる soroesaseru | 揃えさせます soroesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 揃えさせられる soroesaserareru | 揃えさせられます soroesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 揃えろ soroero | 揃えてください soroetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 揃えるな soroeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 揃えれば soroereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 揃えたら soroetara | — | “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.