弱まる (yowamaru) conjugation
to weaken, to be emaciated, to be dejected
弱まる (よわまる, yowamaru) 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 | 弱まる yowamaru | 弱まります yowamarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 弱まらない yowamaranai | 弱まりません yowamarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 弱まった yowamatta | 弱まりました yowamarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 弱まらなかった yowamaranakatta | 弱まりませんでした yowamarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 弱まって yowamatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 弱まっている yowamatteiru | 弱まっています yowamatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 弱まりたい yowamaritai | 弱まりたいです yowamaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 弱まろう yowamarou | 弱まりましょう yowamarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 弱まれる yowamareru | 弱まれます yowamaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 弱まられる yowamarareru | 弱まられます yowamararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 弱まらせる yowamaraseru | 弱まらせます yowamarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 弱まらされる yowamarasareru | 弱まらされます yowamarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 弱まれ yowamare | 弱まってください yowamattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 弱まるな yowamaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 弱まれば yowamareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 弱まったら yowamattara | — | “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.