高まる (takamaru) conjugation
to rise; to grow; to mount (v.i.)
高まる (たかまる, takamaru) 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 | 高まる takamaru | 高まります takamarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 高まらない takamaranai | 高まりません takamarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 高まった takamatta | 高まりました takamarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 高まらなかった takamaranakatta | 高まりませんでした takamarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 高まって takamatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 高まっている takamatteiru | 高まっています takamatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 高まりたい takamaritai | 高まりたいです takamaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 高まろう takamarou | 高まりましょう takamarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 高まれる takamareru | 高まれます takamaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 高まられる takamarareru | 高まられます takamararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 高まらせる takamaraseru | 高まらせます takamarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 高まらされる takamarasareru | 高まらされます takamarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 高まれ takamare | 高まってください takamattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 高まるな takamaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 高まれば takamareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 高まったら takamattara | — | “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.