Godan verb (む)

止むやむ

yamu

to cease · N4

Also read やむ: 病む (fall ill). All 2 words

止む (やむ, yamu) — to cease — is a godan verb ending in む: 止んで (te-form), 止んだ (past), 止まない (negative), 止みます (polite).

It also means to stop; to be over.

How 止む conjugates · godan む-verb

Only the last kana changes: む becomes ま, み, め or も.

Which one depends on the ending. The five are one line of the hiragana chart — same consonant, vowels あ・い・う・え・お — and everything before that kana never changes.

ま止まないnegative

み止みますpolite present

む止むdictionary form

め止めるpotential止めばif

も止もうvolitional

The て and た forms · む → んで, んだん止んでte-form止んだpast

The て and た forms are the only two that don't follow this pattern. Every む-, ぶ- and ぬ-verb has the same んで there.

N5 N tags give the JLPT level at which the game starts quizzing a form.

Aa Dimmed forms are too rare in everyday Japanese for the game to quiz.

PLAIN

Form	Conjugation	Audio
present N5	止むやむ yamu
past N5 It stopped.	止んだやんだ yanda
negative N5 It doesn't stop.	止まないやまない yamanai
te-form N5 It stops and …	止んでやんで yande
past negative N4 It didn't stop.	止まなかったやまなかった yamanakatta
volitional N4	止もうやもう yamou
potential N3	止めるやめる yameru
cond. ば N3 If it stops, ...	止めばやめば yameba
cond. たら N3 When it stops, ...	止んだらやんだら yandara
passive N2 It stops on me.	止まれるやまれる yamareru
causative N2 I make it stop.	止ませるやませる yamaseru
imperative N1	止めやめ yame

POLITE

Form	Conjugation	Audio
present N5	止みますやみます yamimasu
past N5 It stopped.	止みましたやみました yamimashita
negative N5 It doesn't stop.	止みませんやみません yamimasen
past negative N4 It didn't stop.	止みませんでしたやみませんでした yamimasendeshita
volitional N4	止みましょうやみましょう yamimashou

ASPECT

Form	Conjugation	Audio
ている N4 It has stopped.	止んでいるやんでいる yandeiru
ていた N4 It had stopped.	止んでいたやんでいた yandeita
ています N4 It has stopped.	止んでいますやんでいます yandeimasu
ていました N4 It had stopped.	止んでいましたやんでいました yandeimashita