緩める (yurumeru) conjugation
to loosen, to slow down
緩める (ゆるめる, yurumeru) 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 | 緩める yurumeru | 緩めます yurumemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 緩めない yurumenai | 緩めません yurumemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 緩めた yurumeta | 緩めました yurumemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 緩めなかった yurumenakatta | 緩めませんでした yurumemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 緩めて yurumete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 緩めている yurumeteiru | 緩めています yurumeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 緩めたい yurumetai | 緩めたいです yurumetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 緩めよう yurumeyou | 緩めましょう yurumemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 緩められる yurumerareru | 緩められます yurumeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 緩められる yurumerareru | 緩められます yurumeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 緩めさせる yurumesaseru | 緩めさせます yurumesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 緩めさせられる yurumesaserareru | 緩めさせられます yurumesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 緩めろ yurumero | 緩めてください yurumetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 緩めるな yurumeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 緩めれば yurumereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 緩めたら yurumetara | — | “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.