口吟む (kuchizusamu) conjugation
to humble
口吟む (くちずさむ, kuchizusamu) 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 | 口吟む kuchizusamu | 口吟みます kuchizusamimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 口吟まない kuchizusamanai | 口吟みません kuchizusamimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 口吟んだ kuchizusanda | 口吟みました kuchizusamimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 口吟まなかった kuchizusamanakatta | 口吟みませんでした kuchizusamimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 口吟んで kuchizusande | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 口吟んでいる kuchizusandeiru | 口吟んでいます kuchizusandeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 口吟みたい kuchizusamitai | 口吟みたいです kuchizusamitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 口吟もう kuchizusamou | 口吟みましょう kuchizusamimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 口吟める kuchizusameru | 口吟めます kuchizusamemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 口吟まれる kuchizusamareru | 口吟まれます kuchizusamaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 口吟ませる kuchizusamaseru | 口吟ませます kuchizusamasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 口吟まされる kuchizusamasareru | 口吟まされます kuchizusamasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 口吟め kuchizusame | 口吟んでください kuchizusandekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 口吟むな kuchizusamuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 口吟めば kuchizusameba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 口吟んだら kuchizusandara | — | “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.