傷める (itameru) conjugation
to damage, to impair, to spoil
傷める (いためる, itameru) 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 | 傷める itameru | 傷めます itamemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 傷めない itamenai | 傷めません itamemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 傷めた itameta | 傷めました itamemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 傷めなかった itamenakatta | 傷めませんでした itamemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 傷めて itamete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 傷めている itameteiru | 傷めています itameteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 傷めたい itametai | 傷めたいです itametaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 傷めよう itameyou | 傷めましょう itamemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 傷められる itamerareru | 傷められます itameraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 傷められる itamerareru | 傷められます itameraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 傷めさせる itamesaseru | 傷めさせます itamesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 傷めさせられる itamesaserareru | 傷めさせられます itamesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 傷めろ itamero | 傷めてください itametekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 傷めるな itameruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 傷めれば itamereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 傷めたら itametara | — | “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.