縮まる (chijimaru) conjugation
to be shortened, to be contracted, to shrink
縮まる (ちぢまる, chijimaru) 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 | 縮まる chijimaru | 縮まります chijimarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 縮まらない chijimaranai | 縮まりません chijimarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 縮まった chijimatta | 縮まりました chijimarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 縮まらなかった chijimaranakatta | 縮まりませんでした chijimarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 縮まって chijimatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 縮まっている chijimatteiru | 縮まっています chijimatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 縮まりたい chijimaritai | 縮まりたいです chijimaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 縮まろう chijimarou | 縮まりましょう chijimarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 縮まれる chijimareru | 縮まれます chijimaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 縮まられる chijimarareru | 縮まられます chijimararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 縮まらせる chijimaraseru | 縮まらせます chijimarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 縮まらされる chijimarasareru | 縮まらされます chijimarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 縮まれ chijimare | 縮まってください chijimattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 縮まるな chijimaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 縮まれば chijimareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 縮まったら chijimattara | — | “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.