静まる (shizumaru) conjugation
to quieten down, to calm down
静まる (しずまる, shizumaru) 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 | 静まる shizumaru | 静まります shizumarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 静まらない shizumaranai | 静まりません shizumarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 静まった shizumatta | 静まりました shizumarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 静まらなかった shizumaranakatta | 静まりませんでした shizumarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 静まって shizumatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 静まっている shizumatteiru | 静まっています shizumatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 静まりたい shizumaritai | 静まりたいです shizumaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 静まろう shizumarou | 静まりましょう shizumarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 静まれる shizumareru | 静まれます shizumaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 静まられる shizumarareru | 静まられます shizumararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 静まらせる shizumaraseru | 静まらせます shizumarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 静まらされる shizumarasareru | 静まらされます shizumarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 静まれ shizumare | 静まってください shizumattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 静まるな shizumaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 静まれば shizumareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 静まったら shizumattara | — | “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.