危ぶむ (ayabumu) conjugation
to fear, to have misgivings, to be doubtful
危ぶむ (あやぶむ, ayabumu) 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 | 危ぶむ ayabumu | 危ぶみます ayabumimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 危ぶまない ayabumanai | 危ぶみません ayabumimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 危ぶんだ ayabunda | 危ぶみました ayabumimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 危ぶまなかった ayabumanakatta | 危ぶみませんでした ayabumimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 危ぶんで ayabunde | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 危ぶんでいる ayabundeiru | 危ぶんでいます ayabundeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 危ぶみたい ayabumitai | 危ぶみたいです ayabumitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 危ぶもう ayabumou | 危ぶみましょう ayabumimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 危ぶめる ayabumeru | 危ぶめます ayabumemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 危ぶまれる ayabumareru | 危ぶまれます ayabumaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 危ぶませる ayabumaseru | 危ぶませます ayabumasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 危ぶまされる ayabumasareru | 危ぶまされます ayabumasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 危ぶめ ayabume | 危ぶんでください ayabundekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 危ぶむな ayabumuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 危ぶめば ayabumeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 危ぶんだら ayabundara | — | “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.