占める (shimeru) conjugation
to take up; to account for
占める (しめる, shimeru) 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 | 占める shimeru | 占めます shimemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 占めない shimenai | 占めません shimemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 占めた shimeta | 占めました shimemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 占めなかった shimenakatta | 占めませんでした shimemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 占めて shimete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 占めている shimeteiru | 占めています shimeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 占めたい shimetai | 占めたいです shimetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 占めよう shimeyou | 占めましょう shimemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 占められる shimerareru | 占められます shimeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 占められる shimerareru | 占められます shimeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 占めさせる shimesaseru | 占めさせます shimesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 占めさせられる shimesaserareru | 占めさせられます shimesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 占めろ shimero | 占めてください shimetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 占めるな shimeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 占めれば shimereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 占めたら shimetara | — | “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.