染まる (somaru) conjugation
to be dyed
染まる (そまる, somaru) 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 | 染まる somaru | 染まります somarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 染まらない somaranai | 染まりません somarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 染まった somatta | 染まりました somarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 染まらなかった somaranakatta | 染まりませんでした somarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 染まって somatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 染まっている somatteiru | 染まっています somatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 染まりたい somaritai | 染まりたいです somaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 染まろう somarou | 染まりましょう somarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 染まれる somareru | 染まれます somaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 染まられる somarareru | 染まられます somararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 染まらせる somaraseru | 染まらせます somarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 染まらされる somarasareru | 染まらされます somarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 染まれ somare | 染まってください somattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 染まるな somaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 染まれば somareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 染まったら somattara | — | “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.