責める (semeru) conjugation
to condemn, to blame, to criticize
責める (せめる, semeru) 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 | 責める semeru | 責めます sememasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 責めない semenai | 責めません sememasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 責めた semeta | 責めました sememashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 責めなかった semenakatta | 責めませんでした sememasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 責めて semete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 責めている semeteiru | 責めています semeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 責めたい semetai | 責めたいです semetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 責めよう semeyou | 責めましょう sememashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 責められる semerareru | 責められます semeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 責められる semerareru | 責められます semeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 責めさせる semesaseru | 責めさせます semesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 責めさせられる semesaserareru | 責めさせられます semesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 責めろ semero | 責めてください semetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 責めるな semeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 責めれば semereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 責めたら semetara | — | “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.
