束ねる (tabaneru) conjugation
to tie up in a bundle, to control
束ねる (たばねる, tabaneru) 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 | 束ねる tabaneru | 束ねます tabanemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 束ねない tabanenai | 束ねません tabanemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 束ねた tabaneta | 束ねました tabanemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 束ねなかった tabanenakatta | 束ねませんでした tabanemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 束ねて tabanete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 束ねている tabaneteiru | 束ねています tabaneteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 束ねたい tabanetai | 束ねたいです tabanetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 束ねよう tabaneyou | 束ねましょう tabanemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 束ねられる tabanerareru | 束ねられます tabaneraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 束ねられる tabanerareru | 束ねられます tabaneraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 束ねさせる tabanesaseru | 束ねさせます tabanesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 束ねさせられる tabanesaserareru | 束ねさせられます tabanesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 束ねろ tabanero | 束ねてください tabanetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 束ねるな tabaneruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 束ねれば tabanereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 束ねたら tabanetara | — | “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.