唱える (tonaeru) conjugation
to recite, to chant, to call upon
唱える (となえる, tonaeru) 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 | 唱える tonaeru | 唱えます tonaemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 唱えない tonaenai | 唱えません tonaemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 唱えた tonaeta | 唱えました tonaemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 唱えなかった tonaenakatta | 唱えませんでした tonaemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 唱えて tonaete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 唱えている tonaeteiru | 唱えています tonaeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 唱えたい tonaetai | 唱えたいです tonaetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 唱えよう tonaeyou | 唱えましょう tonaemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 唱えられる tonaerareru | 唱えられます tonaeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 唱えられる tonaerareru | 唱えられます tonaeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 唱えさせる tonaesaseru | 唱えさせます tonaesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 唱えさせられる tonaesaserareru | 唱えさせられます tonaesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 唱えろ tonaero | 唱えてください tonaetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 唱えるな tonaeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 唱えれば tonaereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 唱えたら tonaetara | — | “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.
