深める (fukameru) conjugation
to deepen, to heighten, to intensify
深める (ふかめる, fukameru) 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 | 深める fukameru | 深めます fukamemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 深めない fukamenai | 深めません fukamemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 深めた fukameta | 深めました fukamemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 深めなかった fukamenakatta | 深めませんでした fukamemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 深めて fukamete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 深めている fukameteiru | 深めています fukameteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 深めたい fukametai | 深めたいです fukametaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 深めよう fukameyou | 深めましょう fukamemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 深められる fukamerareru | 深められます fukameraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 深められる fukamerareru | 深められます fukameraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 深めさせる fukamesaseru | 深めさせます fukamesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 深めさせられる fukamesaserareru | 深めさせられます fukamesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 深めろ fukamero | 深めてください fukametekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 深めるな fukameruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 深めれば fukamereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 深めたら fukametara | — | “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.