蓄える (takuwaeru) conjugation
to save, to store, to lay in stock
蓄える (たくわえる, takuwaeru) 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 | 蓄える takuwaeru | 蓄えます takuwaemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 蓄えない takuwaenai | 蓄えません takuwaemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 蓄えた takuwaeta | 蓄えました takuwaemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 蓄えなかった takuwaenakatta | 蓄えませんでした takuwaemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 蓄えて takuwaete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 蓄えている takuwaeteiru | 蓄えています takuwaeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 蓄えたい takuwaetai | 蓄えたいです takuwaetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 蓄えよう takuwaeyou | 蓄えましょう takuwaemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 蓄えられる takuwaerareru | 蓄えられます takuwaeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 蓄えられる takuwaerareru | 蓄えられます takuwaeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 蓄えさせる takuwaesaseru | 蓄えさせます takuwaesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 蓄えさせられる takuwaesaserareru | 蓄えさせられます takuwaesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 蓄えろ takuwaero | 蓄えてください takuwaetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 蓄えるな takuwaeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 蓄えれば takuwaereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 蓄えたら takuwaetara | — | “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.
