盗む (nusumu) conjugation
to steal; to rob
盗む (ぬすむ, nusumu) 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 | 盗む nusumu | 盗みます nusumimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 盗まない nusumanai | 盗みません nusumimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 盗んだ nusunda | 盗みました nusumimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 盗まなかった nusumanakatta | 盗みませんでした nusumimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 盗んで nusunde | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 盗んでいる nusundeiru | 盗んでいます nusundeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 盗みたい nusumitai | 盗みたいです nusumitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 盗もう nusumou | 盗みましょう nusumimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 盗める nusumeru | 盗めます nusumemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 盗まれる nusumareru | 盗まれます nusumaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 盗ませる nusumaseru | 盗ませます nusumasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 盗まされる nusumasareru | 盗まされます nusumasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 盗め nusume | 盗んでください nusundekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 盗むな nusumuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 盗めば nusumeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 盗んだら nusundara | — | “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.