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ちぢむ · chijimu

to shrink

JLPT N3 u-verb (godan)

Conjugation table

Form Japanese Reading
dictionary 縮む ちぢむ
polite 縮みます ちぢみます
polite negative 縮みません ちぢみません
polite past 縮みました ちぢみました
plain past 縮んだ ちぢんだ
plain negative 縮まない ちぢまない
te-form 縮んで ちぢんで

縮む in a sentence

  • Inochi ga chijimu omoi o shita.

    I felt as if my life had been shortened.

Example sentences from the Tatoeba Project, CC-BY 2.0 FR, licensed for reuse.