諦める (akirameru) conjugation
to give up, to abandon
諦める (あきらめる, akirameru) 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 | 諦める akirameru | 諦めます akiramemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 諦めない akiramenai | 諦めません akiramemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 諦めた akirameta | 諦めました akiramemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 諦めなかった akiramenakatta | 諦めませんでした akiramemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 諦めて akiramete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 諦めている akirameteiru | 諦めています akirameteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 諦めたい akirametai | 諦めたいです akirametaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 諦めよう akirameyou | 諦めましょう akiramemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 諦められる akiramerareru | 諦められます akirameraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 諦められる akiramerareru | 諦められます akirameraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 諦めさせる akiramesaseru | 諦めさせます akiramesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 諦めさせられる akiramesaserareru | 諦めさせられます akiramesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 諦めろ akiramero | 諦めてください akirametekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 諦めるな akirameruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 諦めれば akiramereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 諦めたら akirametara | — | “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.