I Love Kanjiしゃがむ (shagamu)
しゃがむ is a Japanese verb meaning “to squat; to crouch”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- しゃがむ
- Romaji
- shagamu
- Word class
- Godan verb (う-verb) ending in む
- Level
- JLPT N2 (unofficial)
Meaning
- to squat; to crouch · godan verb, intransitive
Example sentences
少し離れて見ると、その岩は人がしゃがんだ姿に見える。
Seen at a distance, the rock looks like a squatting human figure.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of しゃがむ
Godan verb (う-verb) ending in む. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | しゃがむ | しゃがむ shagamu |
| Polite (~masu) | しゃがみます | しゃがみます shagamimasu |
| Negative | しゃがまない | しゃがまない shagamanai |
| Polite negative | しゃがみません | しゃがみません shagamimasen |
| Past | しゃがんだ | しゃがんだ shaganda |
| Polite past | しゃがみました | しゃがみました shagamimashita |
| Negative past | しゃがまなかった | しゃがまなかった shagamanakatta |
| Te-form | しゃがんで | しゃがんで shagande |
| Potential | しゃがめる | しゃがめる shagameru |
| Passive | しゃがまれる | しゃがまれる shagamareru |
| Causative | しゃがませる | しゃがませる shagamaseru |
| Volitional | しゃがもう | しゃがもう shagamou |
| Imperative | しゃがめ | しゃがめ shagame |
| Conditional (~ba) | しゃがめば | しゃがめば shagameba |
Source: JMdict entry 1005630 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.