丸める (marumeru) conjugation
to make round, to round off, to roll up
丸める (まるめる, marumeru) 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 | 丸める marumeru | 丸めます marumemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 丸めない marumenai | 丸めません marumemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 丸めた marumeta | 丸めました marumemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 丸めなかった marumenakatta | 丸めませんでした marumemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 丸めて marumete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 丸めている marumeteiru | 丸めています marumeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 丸めたい marumetai | 丸めたいです marumetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 丸めよう marumeyou | 丸めましょう marumemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 丸められる marumerareru | 丸められます marumeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 丸められる marumerareru | 丸められます marumeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 丸めさせる marumesaseru | 丸めさせます marumesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 丸めさせられる marumesaserareru | 丸めさせられます marumesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 丸めろ marumero | 丸めてください marumetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 丸めるな marumeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 丸めれば marumereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 丸めたら marumetara | — | “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.