緩む (yurumu) conjugation
to become loose, to slacken
緩む (ゆるむ, yurumu) 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 | 緩む yurumu | 緩みます yurumimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 緩まない yurumanai | 緩みません yurumimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 緩んだ yurunda | 緩みました yurumimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 緩まなかった yurumanakatta | 緩みませんでした yurumimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 緩んで yurunde | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 緩んでいる yurundeiru | 緩んでいます yurundeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 緩みたい yurumitai | 緩みたいです yurumitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 緩もう yurumou | 緩みましょう yurumimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 緩める yurumeru | 緩めます yurumemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 緩まれる yurumareru | 緩まれます yurumaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 緩ませる yurumaseru | 緩ませます yurumasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 緩まされる yurumasareru | 緩まされます yurumasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 緩め yurume | 緩んでください yurundekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 緩むな yurumuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 緩めば yurumeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 緩んだら yurundara | — | “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.