JLPT N5 vocabulary
決める: meaning, reading and conjugation
Reading and pitch accent
きめる0Heiban · flat
Ichidan verb (ru-verb)
Meaning
- to decide, choose, determine, make up one’s mind, resolve, set one’s heart on, settle, arrange, set, appoint, fix
- to clinch a victory, decide the outcome of a match
- to persist in doing, go through with
- to always do, have made a habit of
- to take for granted, assume
- to dress up, dress to kill, dress to the nines
- to carry out successfully (a sports move, dance pose, etc.), succeed in doing
- (martial arts, sumo) to immobilize with a double-arm lock (in sumo, judo, etc.)
Conjugation
| Form | Affirmative | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Basics | ||
| Plain present辞書形 · ない形 | 決める | 決め |
| Plain pastた形 · なかった形 | 決め | 決め |
| Polite presentます形 | 決め | 決め |
| Polite pastました形 | 決め | 決め |
| Te-formて形 | 決め | 決め |
| Conditions and moods | ||
| If (-ba)ば形 | 決め | 決め |
| If / when (-tara)たら形 | 決め | 決め |
| Let’s / will意向形 | 決め | —not in common use |
| Want toたい形 | 決め | 決め |
| Command / don’t命令形 · 禁止形 | 決め | 決める |
| Can · passive · causative | ||
| Can (potential)可能形 | 決め | 決め |
| Passive受身形 | 決め | 決め |
| Make / let使役形 | 決め | 決め |
| Be made to使役受身形 | 決め | 決め |
Example sentences
大学の試験を受けると決めた上は、受験勉強を頑張らなければなりません。
I decided to take the university entrance exam, and so, I have to study hard for it.