植える (ueru) conjugation
to plant
植える (うえる, ueru) 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 | 植える ueru | 植えます uemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 植えない uenai | 植えません uemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 植えた ueta | 植えました uemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 植えなかった uenakatta | 植えませんでした uemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 植えて uete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 植えている ueteiru | 植えています ueteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 植えたい uetai | 植えたいです uetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 植えよう ueyou | 植えましょう uemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 植えられる uerareru | 植えられます ueraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 植えられる uerareru | 植えられます ueraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 植えさせる uesaseru | 植えさせます uesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 植えさせられる uesaserareru | 植えさせられます uesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 植えろ uero | 植えてください uetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 植えるな ueruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 植えれば uereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 植えたら uetara | — | “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.