恵む (megumu) conjugation
to bless, to show mercy to
恵む (めぐむ, megumu) 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 | 恵む megumu | 恵みます megumimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 恵まない megumanai | 恵みません megumimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 恵んだ megunda | 恵みました megumimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 恵まなかった megumanakatta | 恵みませんでした megumimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 恵んで megunde | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 恵んでいる megundeiru | 恵んでいます megundeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 恵みたい megumitai | 恵みたいです megumitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 恵もう megumou | 恵みましょう megumimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 恵める megumeru | 恵めます megumemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 恵まれる megumareru | 恵まれます megumaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 恵ませる megumaseru | 恵ませます megumasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 恵まされる megumasareru | 恵まされます megumasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 恵め megume | 恵んでください megundekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 恵むな megumuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 恵めば megumeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 恵んだら megundara | — | “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.