捨てる (suteru) conjugation
throw away (trash), dump, discard
捨てる (すてる, suteru) 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 | 捨てる suteru | 捨てます sutemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 捨てない sutenai | 捨てません sutemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 捨てた suteta | 捨てました sutemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 捨てなかった sutenakatta | 捨てませんでした sutemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 捨てて sutete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 捨てている suteteiru | 捨てています suteteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 捨てたい sutetai | 捨てたいです sutetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 捨てよう suteyou | 捨てましょう sutemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 捨てられる suterareru | 捨てられます suteraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 捨てられる suterareru | 捨てられます suteraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 捨てさせる sutesaseru | 捨てさせます sutesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 捨てさせられる sutesaserareru | 捨てさせられます sutesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 捨てろ sutero | 捨ててください sutetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 捨てるな suteruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 捨てれば sutereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 捨てたら sutetara | — | “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.