溜める (tameru) conjugation
to accumulate, to collect
溜める (ためる, tameru) 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 | 溜める tameru | 溜めます tamemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 溜めない tamenai | 溜めません tamemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 溜めた tameta | 溜めました tamemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 溜めなかった tamenakatta | 溜めませんでした tamemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 溜めて tamete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 溜めている tameteiru | 溜めています tameteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 溜めたい tametai | 溜めたいです tametaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 溜めよう tameyou | 溜めましょう tamemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 溜められる tamerareru | 溜められます tameraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 溜められる tamerareru | 溜められます tameraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 溜めさせる tamesaseru | 溜めさせます tamesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 溜めさせられる tamesaserareru | 溜めさせられます tamesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 溜めろ tamero | 溜めてください tametekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 溜めるな tameruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 溜めれば tamereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 溜めたら tametara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
🔊 Tap any Japanese word to hear it spoken.
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.