沈める (shizumeru) conjugation
to sink, to submerge
沈める (しずめる, shizumeru) 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 | 沈める shizumeru | 沈めます shizumemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 沈めない shizumenai | 沈めません shizumemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 沈めた shizumeta | 沈めました shizumemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 沈めなかった shizumenakatta | 沈めませんでした shizumemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 沈めて shizumete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 沈めている shizumeteiru | 沈めています shizumeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 沈めたい shizumetai | 沈めたいです shizumetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 沈めよう shizumeyou | 沈めましょう shizumemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 沈められる shizumerareru | 沈められます shizumeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 沈められる shizumerareru | 沈められます shizumeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 沈めさせる shizumesaseru | 沈めさせます shizumesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 沈めさせられる shizumesaserareru | 沈めさせられます shizumesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 沈めろ shizumero | 沈めてください shizumetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 沈めるな shizumeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 沈めれば shizumereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 沈めたら shizumetara | — | “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.