温める (atatameru) conjugation
to warm, to heat
温める (あたためる, atatameru) 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 | 温める atatameru | 温めます atatamemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 温めない atatamenai | 温めません atatamemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 温めた atatameta | 温めました atatamemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 温めなかった atatamenakatta | 温めませんでした atatamemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 温めて atatamete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 温めている atatameteiru | 温めています atatameteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 温めたい atatametai | 温めたいです atatametaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 温めよう atatameyou | 温めましょう atatamemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 温められる atatamerareru | 温められます atatameraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 温められる atatamerareru | 温められます atatameraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 温めさせる atatamesaseru | 温めさせます atatamesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 温めさせられる atatamesaserareru | 温めさせられます atatamesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 温めろ atatamero | 温めてください atatametekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 温めるな atatameruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 温めれば atatamereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 温めたら atatametara | — | “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.
