伝える (tsutaeru) conjugation
to convey (a message); to tell, to report
伝える (つたえる, tsutaeru) 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 | 伝える tsutaeru | 伝えます tsutaemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 伝えない tsutaenai | 伝えません tsutaemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 伝えた tsutaeta | 伝えました tsutaemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 伝えなかった tsutaenakatta | 伝えませんでした tsutaemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 伝えて tsutaete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 伝えている tsutaeteiru | 伝えています tsutaeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 伝えたい tsutaetai | 伝えたいです tsutaetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 伝えよう tsutaeyou | 伝えましょう tsutaemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 伝えられる tsutaerareru | 伝えられます tsutaeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 伝えられる tsutaerareru | 伝えられます tsutaeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 伝えさせる tsutaesaseru | 伝えさせます tsutaesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 伝えさせられる tsutaesaserareru | 伝えさせられます tsutaesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 伝えろ tsutaero | 伝えてください tsutaetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 伝えるな tsutaeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 伝えれば tsutaereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 伝えたら tsutaetara | — | “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.