臨む (nozomu) conjugation
to look out on, to face, to attend (function)
臨む (のぞむ, nozomu) 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 | 臨む nozomu | 臨みます nozomimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 臨まない nozomanai | 臨みません nozomimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 臨んだ nozonda | 臨みました nozomimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 臨まなかった nozomanakatta | 臨みませんでした nozomimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 臨んで nozonde | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 臨んでいる nozondeiru | 臨んでいます nozondeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 臨みたい nozomitai | 臨みたいです nozomitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 臨もう nozomou | 臨みましょう nozomimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 臨める nozomeru | 臨めます nozomemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 臨まれる nozomareru | 臨まれます nozomaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 臨ませる nozomaseru | 臨ませます nozomasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 臨まされる nozomasareru | 臨まされます nozomasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 臨め nozome | 臨んでください nozondekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 臨むな nozomuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 臨めば nozomeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 臨んだら nozondara | — | “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.