据える (sueru) conjugation
to set, to lay, to place
据える (すえる, sueru) 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 | 据える sueru | 据えます suemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 据えない suenai | 据えません suemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 据えた sueta | 据えました suemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 据えなかった suenakatta | 据えませんでした suemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 据えて suete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 据えている sueteiru | 据えています sueteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 据えたい suetai | 据えたいです suetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 据えよう sueyou | 据えましょう suemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 据えられる suerareru | 据えられます sueraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 据えられる suerareru | 据えられます sueraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 据えさせる suesaseru | 据えさせます suesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 据えさせられる suesaserareru | 据えさせられます suesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 据えろ suero | 据えてください suetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 据えるな sueruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 据えれば suereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 据えたら suetara | — | “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.