つなげる (tsunageru) conjugation
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つなげる (つなげる, tsunageru) 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.
Written 繋げる in kanji, but usually written in kana alone.
Conjugation table
| Form | Plain (casual) | Polite (~ます) | When you use it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dictionary / plain | つなげる tsunageru | つなげます tsunagemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | つなげない tsunagenai | つなげません tsunagemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | つなげた tsunageta | つなげました tsunagemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | つなげなかった tsunagenakatta | つなげませんでした tsunagemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | つなげて tsunagete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | つなげている tsunageteiru | つなげています tsunageteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | つなげたい tsunagetai | つなげたいです tsunagetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | つなげよう tsunageyou | つなげましょう tsunagemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | つなげられる tsunagerareru | つなげられます tsunageraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | つなげられる tsunagerareru | つなげられます tsunageraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | つなげさせる tsunagesaseru | つなげさせます tsunagesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | つなげさせられる tsunagesaserareru | つなげさせられます tsunagesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | つなげろ tsunagero | つなげてください tsunagetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | つなげるな tsunageruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | つなげれば tsunagereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | つなげたら tsunagetara | — | “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.