寄せる (yoseru) conjugation
to collect, to gather, to put aside
寄せる (よせる, yoseru) 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 | 寄せる yoseru | 寄せます yosemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 寄せない yosenai | 寄せません yosemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 寄せた yoseta | 寄せました yosemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 寄せなかった yosenakatta | 寄せませんでした yosemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 寄せて yosete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 寄せている yoseteiru | 寄せています yoseteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 寄せたい yosetai | 寄せたいです yosetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 寄せよう yoseyou | 寄せましょう yosemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 寄せられる yoserareru | 寄せられます yoseraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 寄せられる yoserareru | 寄せられます yoseraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 寄せさせる yosesaseru | 寄せさせます yosesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 寄せさせられる yosesaserareru | 寄せさせられます yosesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 寄せろ yosero | 寄せてください yosetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 寄せるな yoseruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 寄せれば yosereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 寄せたら yosetara | — | “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.
