産む (umu) conjugation
to give birth (v.t.), to deliver, to produce
産む (うむ, umu) 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 | 産む umu | 産みます umimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 産まない umanai | 産みません umimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 産んだ unda | 産みました umimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 産まなかった umanakatta | 産みませんでした umimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 産んで unde | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 産んでいる undeiru | 産んでいます undeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 産みたい umitai | 産みたいです umitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 産もう umou | 産みましょう umimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 産める umeru | 産めます umemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 産まれる umareru | 産まれます umaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 産ませる umaseru | 産ませます umasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 産まされる umasareru | 産まされます umasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 産め ume | 産んでください undekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 産むな umuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 産めば umeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 産んだら undara | — | “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.