嘗める (nameru) conjugation
to lick; to experience; to make fun of
嘗める (なめる, nameru) 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 | 嘗める nameru | 嘗めます namemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 嘗めない namenai | 嘗めません namemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 嘗めた nameta | 嘗めました namemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 嘗めなかった namenakatta | 嘗めませんでした namemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 嘗めて namete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 嘗めている nameteiru | 嘗めています nameteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 嘗めたい nametai | 嘗めたいです nametaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 嘗めよう nameyou | 嘗めましょう namemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 嘗められる namerareru | 嘗められます nameraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 嘗められる namerareru | 嘗められます nameraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 嘗めさせる namesaseru | 嘗めさせます namesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 嘗めさせられる namesaserareru | 嘗めさせられます namesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 嘗めろ namero | 嘗めてください nametekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 嘗めるな nameruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 嘗めれば namereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 嘗めたら nametara | — | “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.