I Love Kanji静まる (shizumaru)
静まる (しずまる, shizumaru) is a Japanese verb meaning “to become quiet; to quiet down”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- しずまる
- Romaji
- shizumaru
- Word class
- Godan verb (う-verb) ending in る
- Level
- JLPT N2 (unofficial)
Meaning
- to become quiet; to quiet down; to quieten down · godan verb, intransitive · esp. 静まる
- to calm down; to die down; to subside; to abate; to be suppressed · godan verb, intransitive · esp. 鎮まる
Example sentences
シンと静まった部室。響くのは、クロッキー帳に擦れる鉛筆の音だけ。
The club room returned to quiet. All that could be heard was the sound of pencil on sketchpad.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 静まる
Godan verb (う-verb) ending in る. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | 静まる | しずまる shizumaru |
| Polite (~masu) | 静まります | しずまります shizumarimasu |
| Negative | 静まらない | しずまらない shizumaranai |
| Polite negative | 静まりません | しずまりません shizumarimasen |
| Past | 静まった | しずまった shizumatta |
| Polite past | 静まりました | しずまりました shizumarimashita |
| Negative past | 静まらなかった | しずまらなかった shizumaranakatta |
| Te-form | 静まって | しずまって shizumatte |
| Potential | 静まれる | しずまれる shizumareru |
| Passive | 静まられる | しずまられる shizumarareru |
| Causative | 静まらせる | しずまらせる shizumaraseru |
| Volitional | 静まろう | しずまろう shizumarou |
| Imperative | 静まれ | しずまれ shizumare |
| Conditional (~ba) | 静まれば | しずまれば shizumareba |
Kanji in 静まる
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 静まる.
Source: JMdict entry 1594270 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.