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