定まる (sadamaru) conjugation
to become settled, to be fixed
定まる (さだまる, sadamaru) 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 | 定まる sadamaru | 定まります sadamarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 定まらない sadamaranai | 定まりません sadamarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 定まった sadamatta | 定まりました sadamarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 定まらなかった sadamaranakatta | 定まりませんでした sadamarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 定まって sadamatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 定まっている sadamatteiru | 定まっています sadamatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 定まりたい sadamaritai | 定まりたいです sadamaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 定まろう sadamarou | 定まりましょう sadamarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 定まれる sadamareru | 定まれます sadamaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 定まられる sadamarareru | 定まられます sadamararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 定まらせる sadamaraseru | 定まらせます sadamarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 定まらされる sadamarasareru | 定まらされます sadamarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 定まれ sadamare | 定まってください sadamattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 定まるな sadamaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 定まれば sadamareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 定まったら sadamattara | — | “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.