浴びる (abiru) conjugation
to bathe, to shower
浴びる (あびる, abiru) 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 | 浴びる abiru | 浴びます abimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 浴びない abinai | 浴びません abimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 浴びた abita | 浴びました abimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 浴びなかった abinakatta | 浴びませんでした abimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 浴びて abite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 浴びている abiteiru | 浴びています abiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 浴びたい abitai | 浴びたいです abitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 浴びよう abiyou | 浴びましょう abimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 浴びられる abirareru | 浴びられます abiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 浴びられる abirareru | 浴びられます abiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 浴びさせる abisaseru | 浴びさせます abisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 浴びさせられる abisaserareru | 浴びさせられます abisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 浴びろ abiro | 浴びてください abitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 浴びるな abiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 浴びれば abireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 浴びたら abitara | — | “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.
