整える (totonoeru) conjugation
to put in order, to arrange, to adjust; to get ready, to prepare; to raise money
整える (ととのえる, totonoeru) 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 | 整える totonoeru | 整えます totonoemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 整えない totonoenai | 整えません totonoemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 整えた totonoeta | 整えました totonoemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 整えなかった totonoenakatta | 整えませんでした totonoemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 整えて totonoete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 整えている totonoeteiru | 整えています totonoeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 整えたい totonoetai | 整えたいです totonoetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 整えよう totonoeyou | 整えましょう totonoemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 整えられる totonoerareru | 整えられます totonoeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 整えられる totonoerareru | 整えられます totonoeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 整えさせる totonoesaseru | 整えさせます totonoesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 整えさせられる totonoesaserareru | 整えさせられます totonoesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 整えろ totonoero | 整えてください totonoetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 整えるな totonoeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 整えれば totonoereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 整えたら totonoetara | — | “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.
