連ねる (tsuraneru) conjugation
to link, to join, to put together
連ねる (つらねる, tsuraneru) 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 | 連ねる tsuraneru | 連ねます tsuranemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 連ねない tsuranenai | 連ねません tsuranemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 連ねた tsuraneta | 連ねました tsuranemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 連ねなかった tsuranenakatta | 連ねませんでした tsuranemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 連ねて tsuranete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 連ねている tsuraneteiru | 連ねています tsuraneteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 連ねたい tsuranetai | 連ねたいです tsuranetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 連ねよう tsuraneyou | 連ねましょう tsuranemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 連ねられる tsuranerareru | 連ねられます tsuraneraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 連ねられる tsuranerareru | 連ねられます tsuraneraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 連ねさせる tsuranesaseru | 連ねさせます tsuranesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 連ねさせられる tsuranesaserareru | 連ねさせられます tsuranesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 連ねろ tsuranero | 連ねてください tsuranetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 連ねるな tsuraneruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 連ねれば tsuranereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 連ねたら tsuranetara | — | “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.