染める (someru) conjugation
to dye, to color
染める (そめる, someru) 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 | 染める someru | 染めます somemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 染めない somenai | 染めません somemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 染めた someta | 染めました somemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 染めなかった somenakatta | 染めませんでした somemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 染めて somete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 染めている someteiru | 染めています someteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 染めたい sometai | 染めたいです sometaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 染めよう someyou | 染めましょう somemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 染められる somerareru | 染められます someraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 染められる somerareru | 染められます someraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 染めさせる somesaseru | 染めさせます somesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 染めさせられる somesaserareru | 染めさせられます somesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 染めろ somero | 染めてください sometekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 染めるな someruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 染めれば somereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 染めたら sometara | — | “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.