繕う (tsukurou) conjugation
to mend, to repair
繕う (つくろう, tsukurou) 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 | 繕う tsukurou | 繕います tsukuroimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 繕わない tsukurowanai | 繕いません tsukuroimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 繕った tsukurotta | 繕いました tsukuroimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 繕わなかった tsukurowanakatta | 繕いませんでした tsukuroimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 繕って tsukurotte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 繕っている tsukurotteiru | 繕っています tsukurotteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 繕いたい tsukuroitai | 繕いたいです tsukuroitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 繕おう tsukuroou | 繕いましょう tsukuroimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 繕える tsukuroeru | 繕えます tsukuroemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 繕われる tsukurowareru | 繕われます tsukurowaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 繕わせる tsukurowaseru | 繕わせます tsukurowasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 繕わされる tsukurowasareru | 繕わされます tsukurowasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 繕え tsukuroe | 繕ってください tsukurottekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 繕うな tsukurouna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 繕えば tsukuroeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 繕ったら tsukurottara | — | “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.