進める (susumeru) conjugation
to advance, to promote, to hasten
進める (すすめる, susumeru) 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 | 進める susumeru | 進めます susumemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 進めない susumenai | 進めません susumemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 進めた susumeta | 進めました susumemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 進めなかった susumenakatta | 進めませんでした susumemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 進めて susumete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 進めている susumeteiru | 進めています susumeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 進めたい susumetai | 進めたいです susumetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 進めよう susumeyou | 進めましょう susumemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 進められる susumerareru | 進められます susumeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 進められる susumerareru | 進められます susumeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 進めさせる susumesaseru | 進めさせます susumesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 進めさせられる susumesaserareru | 進めさせられます susumesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 進めろ susumero | 進めてください susumetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 進めるな susumeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 進めれば susumereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 進めたら susumetara | — | “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.