呼び止める (yobitomeru) conjugation
to flag down
呼び止める (よびとめる, yobitomeru) 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 | 呼び止める yobitomeru | 呼び止めます yobitomemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 呼び止めない yobitomenai | 呼び止めません yobitomemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 呼び止めた yobitometa | 呼び止めました yobitomemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 呼び止めなかった yobitomenakatta | 呼び止めませんでした yobitomemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 呼び止めて yobitomete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 呼び止めている yobitometeiru | 呼び止めています yobitometeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 呼び止めたい yobitometai | 呼び止めたいです yobitometaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 呼び止めよう yobitomeyou | 呼び止めましょう yobitomemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 呼び止められる yobitomerareru | 呼び止められます yobitomeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 呼び止められる yobitomerareru | 呼び止められます yobitomeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 呼び止めさせる yobitomesaseru | 呼び止めさせます yobitomesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 呼び止めさせられる yobitomesaserareru | 呼び止めさせられます yobitomesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 呼び止めろ yobitomero | 呼び止めてください yobitometekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 呼び止めるな yobitomeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 呼び止めれば yobitomereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 呼び止めたら yobitometara | — | “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.