Meanings
- 1to drink; to swallow; to take (medicine)u-verb (む)transitive
- 2to smoke (tobacco)u-verb (む)transitive
- 3to swallow up; to engulfu-verb (む)transitive
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Conjugation
| Form | Conjugated | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Polite Present (~masu) | 飲みますのみます | のみます |
| Polite Past (~mashita) | 飲みましたのみました | のみました |
| Polite Negative (~masen) | 飲みませんのみません | のみません |
| Plain Negative (~nai) | 飲まないのまない | のまない |
| Te-form (Connecting) | 飲んでのんで | のんで |
| Plain Past (~ta) | 飲んだのんだ | のんだ |
| Potential (Can do) | 飲めるのめる | のめる |
In a sentence
Want to drink water?
How it works
を (object) marks 水 (water) as the thing being drunk, sitting right before the verb 飲む (drink). The verb stays in its plain dictionary form — no polite ます (polite) — so this is casual. There's no question word か (question); the ？ (?) alone signals a rising tone, the easy “drink some water?” you'd say to a friend.