I Love Kanji読む (yomu)
読む (よむ, yomu) is a Japanese verb meaning “to read”. It appears in JLPT N5 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- よむ
- Romaji
- yomu
- Word class
- Godan verb (う-verb) ending in む
- Level
- JLPT N5 (unofficial)
Meaning
- to read · godan verb, transitive
- to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant · godan verb, transitive
- to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart) · godan verb, transitive
- to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji) · godan verb, transitive
- to decipher; to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.); to tell (the time) · godan verb, transitive
Example sentences
私の頭は楽譜を読むようにはよく慣らされて居りますが、どうも暗号を読むには適しません。
My mind is quite accustomed to reading music, but deciphering secret codes is not its forte.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 読む
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 | 読む | よむ yomu |
| Polite (~masu) | 読みます | よみます yomimasu |
| Negative | 読まない | よまない yomanai |
| Polite negative | 読みません | よみません yomimasen |
| Past | 読んだ | よんだ yonda |
| Polite past | 読みました | よみました yomimashita |
| Negative past | 読まなかった | よまなかった yomanakatta |
| Te-form | 読んで | よんで yonde |
| Potential | 読める | よめる yomeru |
| Passive | 読まれる | よまれる yomareru |
| Causative | 読ませる | よませる yomaseru |
| Volitional | 読もう | よもう yomou |
| Imperative | 読め | よめ yome |
| Conditional (~ba) | 読めば | よめば yomeba |
Kanji in 読む
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 読む.
読みよみreading読書どくしょreading (books)句読点くとうてんpunctuation mark購読こうどくbuying and reading (book, magazine, etc.)朗読ろうどくreading aloud読み上げるよみあげるto read out講読こうどくreading
Source: JMdict entry 1456360 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.