辞める (yameru) conjugation
to retire
辞める (やめる, yameru) 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 | 辞める yameru | 辞めます yamemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 辞めない yamenai | 辞めません yamemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 辞めた yameta | 辞めました yamemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 辞めなかった yamenakatta | 辞めませんでした yamemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 辞めて yamete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 辞めている yameteiru | 辞めています yameteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 辞めたい yametai | 辞めたいです yametaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 辞めよう yameyou | 辞めましょう yamemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 辞められる yamerareru | 辞められます yameraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 辞められる yamerareru | 辞められます yameraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 辞めさせる yamesaseru | 辞めさせます yamesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 辞めさせられる yamesaserareru | 辞めさせられます yamesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 辞めろ yamero | 辞めてください yametekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 辞めるな yameruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 辞めれば yamereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 辞めたら yametara | — | “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.