休む (yasumu) conjugation
to rest, to have a break, to get time off
休む (やすむ, yasumu) 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 | 休む yasumu | 休みます yasumimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 休まない yasumanai | 休みません yasumimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 休んだ yasunda | 休みました yasumimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 休まなかった yasumanakatta | 休みませんでした yasumimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 休んで yasunde | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 休んでいる yasundeiru | 休んでいます yasundeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 休みたい yasumitai | 休みたいです yasumitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 休もう yasumou | 休みましょう yasumimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 休める yasumeru | 休めます yasumemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 休まれる yasumareru | 休まれます yasumaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 休ませる yasumaseru | 休ませます yasumasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 休まされる yasumasareru | 休まされます yasumasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 休め yasume | 休んでください yasundekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 休むな yasumuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 休めば yasumeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 休んだら yasundara | — | “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.