赤らむ (akaramu) conjugation
to become red, to blush
赤らむ (あからむ, akaramu) is a godan verb. Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば. 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 | 赤らむ akaramu | 赤らみます akaramimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 赤らまない akaramanai | 赤らみません akaramimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 赤らんだ akaranda | 赤らみました akaramimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 赤らまなかった akaramanakatta | 赤らみませんでした akaramimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 赤らんで akarande | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 赤らんでいる akarandeiru | 赤らんでいます akarandeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 赤らみたい akaramitai | 赤らみたいです akaramitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 赤らもう akaramou | 赤らみましょう akaramimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 赤らめる akarameru | 赤らめます akaramemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 赤らまれる akaramareru | 赤らまれます akaramaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 赤らませる akaramaseru | 赤らませます akaramasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 赤らまされる akaramasareru | 赤らまされます akaramasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 赤らめ akarame | 赤らんでください akarandekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 赤らむな akaramuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 赤らめば akarameba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 赤らんだら akarandara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.