覚める (sameru) conjugation
to wake, to wake up
覚める (さめる, sameru) is an ichidan verb. Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes. 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 | 覚める sameru | 覚めます samemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 覚めない samenai | 覚めません samemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 覚めた sameta | 覚めました samemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 覚めなかった samenakatta | 覚めませんでした samemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 覚めて samete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 覚めている sameteiru | 覚めています sameteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 覚めたい sametai | 覚めたいです sametaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 覚めよう sameyou | 覚めましょう samemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 覚められる samerareru | 覚められます sameraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 覚められる samerareru | 覚められます sameraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 覚めさせる samesaseru | 覚めさせます samesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 覚めさせられる samesaserareru | 覚めさせられます samesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 覚めろ samero | 覚めてください sametekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 覚めるな sameruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 覚めれば samereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 覚めたら sametara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.