涼む (suzumu) conjugation
to cool oneself, to cool off
涼む (すずむ, suzumu) 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 | 涼む suzumu | 涼みます suzumimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 涼まない suzumanai | 涼みません suzumimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 涼んだ suzunda | 涼みました suzumimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 涼まなかった suzumanakatta | 涼みませんでした suzumimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 涼んで suzunde | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 涼んでいる suzundeiru | 涼んでいます suzundeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 涼みたい suzumitai | 涼みたいです suzumitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 涼もう suzumou | 涼みましょう suzumimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 涼める suzumeru | 涼めます suzumemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 涼まれる suzumareru | 涼まれます suzumaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 涼ませる suzumaseru | 涼ませます suzumasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 涼まされる suzumasareru | 涼まされます suzumasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 涼め suzume | 涼んでください suzundekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 涼むな suzumuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 涼めば suzumeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 涼んだら suzundara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
🔊 Tap any Japanese word to hear it spoken.
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.