訪ねる (tazuneru) conjugation
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訪ねる (たずねる, tazuneru) 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 | 訪ねる tazuneru | 訪ねます tazunemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 訪ねない tazunenai | 訪ねません tazunemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 訪ねた tazuneta | 訪ねました tazunemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 訪ねなかった tazunenakatta | 訪ねませんでした tazunemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 訪ねて tazunete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 訪ねている tazuneteiru | 訪ねています tazuneteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 訪ねたい tazunetai | 訪ねたいです tazunetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 訪ねよう tazuneyou | 訪ねましょう tazunemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 訪ねられる tazunerareru | 訪ねられます tazuneraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 訪ねられる tazunerareru | 訪ねられます tazuneraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 訪ねさせる tazunesaseru | 訪ねさせます tazunesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 訪ねさせられる tazunesaserareru | 訪ねさせられます tazunesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 訪ねろ tazunero | 訪ねてください tazunetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 訪ねるな tazuneruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 訪ねれば tazunereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 訪ねたら tazunetara | — | “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.