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JAPANESE VERB

あたたまる

温まる

to warm up

  • #402 most used
  • Godan verb (u-verb)

Conjugation

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Present and future

now, habits, and what is to come

Form Polite Plain
AffirmativeI warm up
NegativeI don’t warm up

Past

finished actions

Form Polite Plain
AffirmativeI warmed up
NegativeI didn’t warm up

Te-form

て形 · joining actions, “doing”, requests

Form Polite Plain
て-formwarming up, and…
Doing now (て います)I am warming up
Please (て ください)please warm up

Potential

可能形 · “can”

Form Polite Plain
AffirmativeI can warm up
NegativeI can’t warm up

Want to

たい形 · “want to”

Form Polite Plain
AffirmativeI want to warm up
NegativeI don’t want to warm up

Volitional

意向形 · “let’s”, “I’ll”

Form Polite Plain
Let’slet’s warm up

Conditional

条件形 · “if” and “when”

  1. If (ば) if I warm up
  2. If, when (たら) if I warm up

Commands and requests

命令形 · from gentle to blunt

  1. Do it (なさい) warm up (do it)
  2. Plain command warm up!
  3. Please don’t please don’t warm up

Passive and causative

受身形・使役形 · “is done”, “make someone do”

Form Polite Plain
PassiveI am warmed up
CausativeI make someone warm up

How to use あたたまる

One sentence for each tense, the way people say it.

  1. Present and future

    おふろ に はいる と、 からだ が あたたまります。

    When you take a bath, your body warms up.

  2. Past

    ストーブ で へや が やっと あたたまった。

    The room finally warmed up with the heater.

  3. Te-form

    スープ は もう あたたまって いる よ。

    The soup's already warmed up.

  4. Potential

    あの カフェ で すこし あたたまれます よ。

    We can warm up a bit at that café.

  5. Want to

    さむい！ はやく おふろ で あたたまりたい。

    So cold! I want to warm up in the bath quickly.

  6. Volitional

    なか に はいって、 あたたまろう。

    Let's go inside and warm up.

  7. Conditional

    あたたまったら、 また そと に でよう。

    Once we've warmed up, let's go back outside.

  8. Commands and requests

    こたつ に はいって、 ゆっくり あたたまりなさい。

    Get in the kotatsu and warm up properly.

  9. Passive and causative

    あたたまる まえ に、 そと に つれだされた。

    Before I'd warmed up, I was dragged back outside.

Good to know

  • あたたまる is for what warms up by itself: your body, a room, soup; あたためる is to warm something up. こころ が あたたまる is heartwarming.
  • Nobody makes you warm up, so the passive sentence shows あたたまる beside another verb.

Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: godan verb (u-verb).