踏む (fumu) conjugation
to step on, to tread on
踏む (ふむ, fumu) 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 | 踏む fumu | 踏みます fumimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 踏まない fumanai | 踏みません fumimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 踏んだ funda | 踏みました fumimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 踏まなかった fumanakatta | 踏みませんでした fumimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 踏んで funde | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 踏んでいる fundeiru | 踏んでいます fundeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 踏みたい fumitai | 踏みたいです fumitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 踏もう fumou | 踏みましょう fumimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 踏める fumeru | 踏めます fumemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 踏まれる fumareru | 踏まれます fumaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 踏ませる fumaseru | 踏ませます fumasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 踏まされる fumasareru | 踏まされます fumasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 踏め fume | 踏んでください fundekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 踏むな fumuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 踏めば fumeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 踏んだら fundara | — | “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.