編む (amu) conjugation
to knit
編む (あむ, amu) 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 | 編む amu | 編みます amimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 編まない amanai | 編みません amimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 編んだ anda | 編みました amimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 編まなかった amanakatta | 編みませんでした amimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 編んで ande | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 編んでいる andeiru | 編んでいます andeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 編みたい amitai | 編みたいです amitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 編もう amou | 編みましょう amimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 編める ameru | 編めます amemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 編まれる amareru | 編まれます amaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 編ませる amaseru | 編ませます amasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 編まされる amasareru | 編まされます amasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 編め ame | 編んでください andekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 編むな amuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 編めば ameba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 編んだら andara | — | “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.