繋げる

Japanese

Alternative spelling
繫げる (kyūjitai)

繋(つな)げる • (tsunageru) transitive ichidan (stem 繋(つな)げ (tsunage), past 繋(つな)げた (tsunageta))

Japanese verb pair
active	繋げる
mediopassive	繋がる

fasten, tie
二本(にほん)の紐(ひも)を繋(つな)げて長(なが)くする
nihon no himo o tsunagete nagaku suru
to lengthen the string by tying two of them
connect, relate
夜(よ)の森(もり)経由(けいゆ)で水戸(みと)と仙台(せんだい)を繋(つな)げる
yonomori keiyu de mito to sendai o tsunageru
to connect Mito and Sendai via Yonomori

貧困(ひんこん)と犯罪(はんざい)を繋(つな)げる
hinkon to hanzai o tsunageru
to relate poverty and crime

Conjugation of "繋げる" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective")	繋げ	つなげ	tsunage
Ren’yōkei ("continuative")	繋げ	つなげ	tsunage
Shūshikei ("terminal")	繋げる	つなげる	tsunageru
Rentaikei ("attributive")	繋げる	つなげる	tsunageru
Kateikei ("hypothetical")	繋げれ	つなげれ	tsunagere
Meireikei ("imperative")	繋げよ¹ 繋げろ²	つなげよ¹ つなげろ²	tsunageyo¹ tsunagero²
Key constructions
Passive	繋げられる	つなげられる	tsunagerareru
Causative	繋げさせる繋げさす	つなげさせるつなげさす	tsunagesaseru tsunagesasu
Potential	繋げられる繋げれる³	つなげられるつなげれる³	tsunagerareru tsunagereru³
Volitional	繋げよう	つなげよう	tsunageyō
Negative	繋げない繋げぬ繋げん	つなげないつなげぬつなげん	tsunagenai tsunagenu tsunagen
Negative continuative	繋げず	つなげず	tsunagezu
Formal	繋げます	つなげます	tsunagemasu
Perfective	繋げた	つなげた	tsunageta
Conjunctive	繋げて	つなげて	tsunagete
Hypothetical conditional	繋げれば	つなげれば	tsunagereba

¹ Written imperative
² Spoken imperative
³ Colloquial potential

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
^ “繋げる”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎^[1] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2000-2002, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here