途絶える (todaeru) conjugation
to stop, to cease, to come to an end
途絶える (とだえる, todaeru) 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 | 途絶える todaeru | 途絶えます todaemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 途絶えない todaenai | 途絶えません todaemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 途絶えた todaeta | 途絶えました todaemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 途絶えなかった todaenakatta | 途絶えませんでした todaemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 途絶えて todaete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 途絶えている todaeteiru | 途絶えています todaeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 途絶えたい todaetai | 途絶えたいです todaetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 途絶えよう todaeyou | 途絶えましょう todaemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 途絶えられる todaerareru | 途絶えられます todaeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 途絶えられる todaerareru | 途絶えられます todaeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 途絶えさせる todaesaseru | 途絶えさせます todaesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 途絶えさせられる todaesaserareru | 途絶えさせられます todaesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 途絶えろ todaero | 途絶えてください todaetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 途絶えるな todaeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 途絶えれば todaereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 途絶えたら todaetara | — | “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.