休める (yasumeru) conjugation
to rest, to suspend, to give relief
休める (やすめる, yasumeru) 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 | 休める yasumeru | 休めます yasumemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 休めない yasumenai | 休めません yasumemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 休めた yasumeta | 休めました yasumemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 休めなかった yasumenakatta | 休めませんでした yasumemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 休めて yasumete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 休めている yasumeteiru | 休めています yasumeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 休めたい yasumetai | 休めたいです yasumetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 休めよう yasumeyou | 休めましょう yasumemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 休められる yasumerareru | 休められます yasumeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 休められる yasumerareru | 休められます yasumeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 休めさせる yasumesaseru | 休めさせます yasumesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 休めさせられる yasumesaserareru | 休めさせられます yasumesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 休めろ yasumero | 休めてください yasumetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 休めるな yasumeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 休めれば yasumereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 休めたら yasumetara | — | “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.
