目覚める (mezameru) conjugation
to wake up
目覚める (めざめる, mezameru) 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 | 目覚める mezameru | 目覚めます mezamemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 目覚めない mezamenai | 目覚めません mezamemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 目覚めた mezameta | 目覚めました mezamemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 目覚めなかった mezamenakatta | 目覚めませんでした mezamemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 目覚めて mezamete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 目覚めている mezameteiru | 目覚めています mezameteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 目覚めたい mezametai | 目覚めたいです mezametaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 目覚めよう mezameyou | 目覚めましょう mezamemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 目覚められる mezamerareru | 目覚められます mezameraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 目覚められる mezamerareru | 目覚められます mezameraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 目覚めさせる mezamesaseru | 目覚めさせます mezamesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 目覚めさせられる mezamesaserareru | 目覚めさせられます mezamesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 目覚めろ mezamero | 目覚めてください mezametekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 目覚めるな mezameruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 目覚めれば mezamereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 目覚めたら mezametara | — | “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.