接ぐ (tsugu) conjugation
to join; to piece together; to set (bones); to graft (trees)
接ぐ (つぐ, tsugu) 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 | 接ぐ tsugu | 接ぎます tsugimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 接がない tsuganai | 接ぎません tsugimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 接いだ tsuida | 接ぎました tsugimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 接がなかった tsuganakatta | 接ぎませんでした tsugimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 接いで tsuide | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 接いでいる tsuideiru | 接いでいます tsuideimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 接ぎたい tsugitai | 接ぎたいです tsugitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 接ごう tsugou | 接ぎましょう tsugimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 接げる tsugeru | 接げます tsugemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 接がれる tsugareru | 接がれます tsugaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 接がせる tsugaseru | 接がせます tsugasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 接がされる tsugasareru | 接がされます tsugasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 接げ tsuge | 接いでください tsuidekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 接ぐな tsuguna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 接げば tsugeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 接いだら tsuidara | — | “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.