悩ます (nayamasu) conjugation
to bother, to harass, to molest
悩ます (なやます, nayamasu) 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 | 悩ます nayamasu | 悩まします nayamashimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 悩まさない nayamasanai | 悩ましません nayamashimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 悩ました nayamashita | 悩ましました nayamashimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 悩まさなかった nayamasanakatta | 悩ましませんでした nayamashimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 悩まして nayamashite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 悩ましている nayamashiteiru | 悩ましています nayamashiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 悩ましたい nayamashitai | 悩ましたいです nayamashitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 悩まそう nayamasou | 悩ましましょう nayamashimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 悩ませる nayamaseru | 悩ませます nayamasemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 悩まされる nayamasareru | 悩まされます nayamasaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 悩まさせる nayamasaseru | 悩まさせます nayamasasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 悩まさせられる nayamasaserareru | 悩まさせられます nayamasaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 悩ませ nayamase | 悩ましてください nayamashitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 悩ますな nayamasuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 悩ませば nayamaseba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 悩ましたら nayamashitara | — | “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.