阻む (habamu) conjugation
to keep someone from doing, to stop, to oppose
阻む (はばむ, habamu) 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 | 阻む habamu | 阻みます habamimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 阻まない habamanai | 阻みません habamimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 阻んだ habanda | 阻みました habamimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 阻まなかった habamanakatta | 阻みませんでした habamimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 阻んで habande | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 阻んでいる habandeiru | 阻んでいます habandeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 阻みたい habamitai | 阻みたいです habamitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 阻もう habamou | 阻みましょう habamimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 阻める habameru | 阻めます habamemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 阻まれる habamareru | 阻まれます habamaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 阻ませる habamaseru | 阻ませます habamasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 阻まされる habamasareru | 阻まされます habamasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 阻め habame | 阻んでください habandekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 阻むな habamuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 阻めば habameba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 阻んだら habandara | — | “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.