楽む (tanoshimu) conjugation
to enjoy
楽む (たのしむ, tanoshimu) 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 | 楽む tanoshimu | 楽みます tanoshimimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 楽まない tanoshimanai | 楽みません tanoshimimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 楽んだ tanoshinda | 楽みました tanoshimimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 楽まなかった tanoshimanakatta | 楽みませんでした tanoshimimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 楽んで tanoshinde | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 楽んでいる tanoshindeiru | 楽んでいます tanoshindeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 楽みたい tanoshimitai | 楽みたいです tanoshimitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 楽もう tanoshimou | 楽みましょう tanoshimimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 楽める tanoshimeru | 楽めます tanoshimemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 楽まれる tanoshimareru | 楽まれます tanoshimaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 楽ませる tanoshimaseru | 楽ませます tanoshimasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 楽まされる tanoshimasareru | 楽まされます tanoshimasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 楽め tanoshime | 楽んでください tanoshindekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 楽むな tanoshimuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 楽めば tanoshimeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 楽んだら tanoshindara | — | “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.