強める (tsuyomeru) conjugation
to strengthen, to emphasize
強める (つよめる, tsuyomeru) 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 | 強める tsuyomeru | 強めます tsuyomemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 強めない tsuyomenai | 強めません tsuyomemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 強めた tsuyometa | 強めました tsuyomemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 強めなかった tsuyomenakatta | 強めませんでした tsuyomemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 強めて tsuyomete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 強めている tsuyometeiru | 強めています tsuyometeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 強めたい tsuyometai | 強めたいです tsuyometaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 強めよう tsuyomeyou | 強めましょう tsuyomemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 強められる tsuyomerareru | 強められます tsuyomeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 強められる tsuyomerareru | 強められます tsuyomeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 強めさせる tsuyomesaseru | 強めさせます tsuyomesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 強めさせられる tsuyomesaserareru | 強めさせられます tsuyomesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 強めろ tsuyomero | 強めてください tsuyometekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 強めるな tsuyomeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 強めれば tsuyomereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 強めたら tsuyometara | — | “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.
