早める (hayameru) conjugation
to hasten, to quicken, to accelerate
早める (はやめる, hayameru) 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 | 早める hayameru | 早めます hayamemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 早めない hayamenai | 早めません hayamemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 早めた hayameta | 早めました hayamemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 早めなかった hayamenakatta | 早めませんでした hayamemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 早めて hayamete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 早めている hayameteiru | 早めています hayameteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 早めたい hayametai | 早めたいです hayametaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 早めよう hayameyou | 早めましょう hayamemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 早められる hayamerareru | 早められます hayameraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 早められる hayamerareru | 早められます hayameraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 早めさせる hayamesaseru | 早めさせます hayamesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 早めさせられる hayamesaserareru | 早めさせられます hayamesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 早めろ hayamero | 早めてください hayametekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 早めるな hayameruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 早めれば hayamereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 早めたら hayametara | — | “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.