落ち込む (ochikomu) conjugation
to get depressed
落ち込む (おちこむ, ochikomu) 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 | 落ち込む ochikomu | 落ち込みます ochikomimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 落ち込まない ochikomanai | 落ち込みません ochikomimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 落ち込んだ ochikonda | 落ち込みました ochikomimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 落ち込まなかった ochikomanakatta | 落ち込みませんでした ochikomimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 落ち込んで ochikonde | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 落ち込んでいる ochikondeiru | 落ち込んでいます ochikondeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 落ち込みたい ochikomitai | 落ち込みたいです ochikomitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 落ち込もう ochikomou | 落ち込みましょう ochikomimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 落ち込める ochikomeru | 落ち込めます ochikomemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 落ち込まれる ochikomareru | 落ち込まれます ochikomaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 落ち込ませる ochikomaseru | 落ち込ませます ochikomasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 落ち込まされる ochikomasareru | 落ち込まされます ochikomasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 落ち込め ochikome | 落ち込んでください ochikondekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 落ち込むな ochikomuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 落ち込めば ochikomeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 落ち込んだら ochikondara | — | “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.