怠ける (namakeru) conjugation
to be idle, to neglect
怠ける (なまける, namakeru) 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 | 怠ける namakeru | 怠けます namakemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 怠けない namakenai | 怠けません namakemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 怠けた namaketa | 怠けました namakemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 怠けなかった namakenakatta | 怠けませんでした namakemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 怠けて namakete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 怠けている namaketeiru | 怠けています namaketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 怠けたい namaketai | 怠けたいです namaketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 怠けよう namakeyou | 怠けましょう namakemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 怠けられる namakerareru | 怠けられます namakeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 怠けられる namakerareru | 怠けられます namakeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 怠けさせる namakesaseru | 怠けさせます namakesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 怠けさせられる namakesaserareru | 怠けさせられます namakesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 怠けろ namakero | 怠けてください namaketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 怠けるな namakeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 怠ければ namakereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 怠けたら namaketara | — | “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.