慰める (nagusameru) conjugation
to comfort, to console
慰める (なぐさめる, nagusameru) 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 | 慰める nagusameru | 慰めます nagusamemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 慰めない nagusamenai | 慰めません nagusamemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 慰めた nagusameta | 慰めました nagusamemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 慰めなかった nagusamenakatta | 慰めませんでした nagusamemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 慰めて nagusamete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 慰めている nagusameteiru | 慰めています nagusameteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 慰めたい nagusametai | 慰めたいです nagusametaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 慰めよう nagusameyou | 慰めましょう nagusamemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 慰められる nagusamerareru | 慰められます nagusameraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 慰められる nagusamerareru | 慰められます nagusameraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 慰めさせる nagusamesaseru | 慰めさせます nagusamesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 慰めさせられる nagusamesaserareru | 慰めさせられます nagusamesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 慰めろ nagusamero | 慰めてください nagusametekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 慰めるな nagusameruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 慰めれば nagusamereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 慰めたら nagusametara | — | “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.