広める (hiromeru) conjugation
to broaden, to propagate
広める (ひろめる, hiromeru) 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 | 広める hiromeru | 広めます hiromemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 広めない hiromenai | 広めません hiromemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 広めた hirometa | 広めました hiromemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 広めなかった hiromenakatta | 広めませんでした hiromemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 広めて hiromete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 広めている hirometeiru | 広めています hirometeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 広めたい hirometai | 広めたいです hirometaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 広めよう hiromeyou | 広めましょう hiromemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 広められる hiromerareru | 広められます hiromeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 広められる hiromerareru | 広められます hiromeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 広めさせる hiromesaseru | 広めさせます hiromesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 広めさせられる hiromesaserareru | 広めさせられます hiromesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 広めろ hiromero | 広めてください hirometekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 広めるな hiromeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 広めれば hiromereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 広めたら hirometara | — | “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.