連れる (tsureru) conjugation
to lead, to take (a person)
連れる (つれる, tsureru) 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 | 連れる tsureru | 連れます tsuremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 連れない tsurenai | 連れません tsuremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 連れた tsureta | 連れました tsuremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 連れなかった tsurenakatta | 連れませんでした tsuremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 連れて tsurete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 連れている tsureteiru | 連れています tsureteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 連れたい tsuretai | 連れたいです tsuretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 連れよう tsureyou | 連れましょう tsuremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 連れられる tsurerareru | 連れられます tsureraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 連れられる tsurerareru | 連れられます tsureraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 連れさせる tsuresaseru | 連れさせます tsuresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 連れさせられる tsuresaserareru | 連れさせられます tsuresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 連れろ tsurero | 連れてください tsuretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 連れるな tsureruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 連れれば tsurereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 連れたら tsuretara | — | “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.