埋める (uzumeru) conjugation
to bury, to fill
埋める (うずめる, uzumeru) 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 | 埋める uzumeru | 埋めます uzumemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 埋めない uzumenai | 埋めません uzumemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 埋めた uzumeta | 埋めました uzumemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 埋めなかった uzumenakatta | 埋めませんでした uzumemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 埋めて uzumete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 埋めている uzumeteiru | 埋めています uzumeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 埋めたい uzumetai | 埋めたいです uzumetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 埋めよう uzumeyou | 埋めましょう uzumemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 埋められる uzumerareru | 埋められます uzumeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 埋められる uzumerareru | 埋められます uzumeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 埋めさせる uzumesaseru | 埋めさせます uzumesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 埋めさせられる uzumesaserareru | 埋めさせられます uzumesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 埋めろ uzumero | 埋めてください uzumetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 埋めるな uzumeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 埋めれば uzumereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 埋めたら uzumetara | — | “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.
