続ける (tsuzukeru) conjugation
to continue, to keep up
続ける (つづける, tsuzukeru) 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 | 続ける tsuzukeru | 続けます tsuzukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 続けない tsuzukenai | 続けません tsuzukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 続けた tsuzuketa | 続けました tsuzukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 続けなかった tsuzukenakatta | 続けませんでした tsuzukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 続けて tsuzukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 続けている tsuzuketeiru | 続けています tsuzuketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 続けたい tsuzuketai | 続けたいです tsuzuketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 続けよう tsuzukeyou | 続けましょう tsuzukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 続けられる tsuzukerareru | 続けられます tsuzukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 続けられる tsuzukerareru | 続けられます tsuzukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 続けさせる tsuzukesaseru | 続けさせます tsuzukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 続けさせられる tsuzukesaserareru | 続けさせられます tsuzukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 続けろ tsuzukero | 続けてください tsuzuketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 続けるな tsuzukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 続ければ tsuzukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 続けたら tsuzuketara | — | “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.