取り扱う (toriatsukau) conjugation
to treat, to handle, to deal in
取り扱う (とりあつかう, toriatsukau) is a godan verb. Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば. 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 | 取り扱う toriatsukau | 取り扱います toriatsukaimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 取り扱わない toriatsukawanai | 取り扱いません toriatsukaimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 取り扱った toriatsukatta | 取り扱いました toriatsukaimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 取り扱わなかった toriatsukawanakatta | 取り扱いませんでした toriatsukaimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 取り扱って toriatsukatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 取り扱っている toriatsukatteiru | 取り扱っています toriatsukatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 取り扱いたい toriatsukaitai | 取り扱いたいです toriatsukaitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 取り扱おう toriatsukaou | 取り扱いましょう toriatsukaimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 取り扱える toriatsukaeru | 取り扱えます toriatsukaemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 取り扱われる toriatsukawareru | 取り扱われます toriatsukawaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 取り扱わせる toriatsukawaseru | 取り扱わせます toriatsukawasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 取り扱わされる toriatsukawasareru | 取り扱わされます toriatsukawasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 取り扱え toriatsukae | 取り扱ってください toriatsukattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 取り扱うな toriatsukauna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 取り扱えば toriatsukaeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 取り扱ったら toriatsukattara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.