音読み: ジュウ
訓読み: すむ・すまう
画数: 7
部首: 亻（にんべん）
Meaning
Live / Reside / Dwell
- Basic forms
- 住む — to live / base form
- 住みます — polite / I live / masu form
- 住んだ — past / lived / ta form
- 住んで — te-form / live (and …) / linking or request
- 住まない — negative / don’t live / negative form
- 住めば — if I live / conditional
- 住め — live! / imperative
- Other common forms
- 住みたい — want to live / 〜たい form
- 住める — can live / be able to live / potential
- 住まなかった — didn’t live / past negative
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- 住もう — let’s live / 〜よう form
- 住んでいる — living / reside / progressive / state
住む (すむ) is a godan (う-verb) meaning “to live” or “to reside.” It’s often used with the particle に — as in 東京に住んでいます (“I live in Tokyo”). The て-form 住んで expresses current state rather than action, describing where one resides.
- 住所 — address
- 住民 — resident
- 住職 — chief priest (at a temple)
- 永住 — permanent residence
- 住居 — dwelling, residence
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住 combines the person radical (亻) with 主 (master) — showing a person taking root or settling in a place as their own. It is closely linked to long-term presence or residency.
東京に住んでいます。
I live in Tokyo.
住所を教えてください。
Please tell me your address.
住宅 — housing, residence