沈む (shizumu) conjugation
to sink; to feel depressed
沈む (しずむ, shizumu) 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 | 沈む shizumu | 沈みます shizumimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 沈まない shizumanai | 沈みません shizumimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 沈んだ shizunda | 沈みました shizumimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 沈まなかった shizumanakatta | 沈みませんでした shizumimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 沈んで shizunde | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 沈んでいる shizundeiru | 沈んでいます shizundeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 沈みたい shizumitai | 沈みたいです shizumitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 沈もう shizumou | 沈みましょう shizumimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 沈める shizumeru | 沈めます shizumemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 沈まれる shizumareru | 沈まれます shizumaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 沈ませる shizumaseru | 沈ませます shizumasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 沈まされる shizumasareru | 沈まされます shizumasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 沈め shizume | 沈んでください shizundekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 沈むな shizumuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 沈めば shizumeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 沈んだら shizundara | — | “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.