音読み: イン
訓読み: のむ
画数: 12
部首: しょくへん（食）
Meaning
Drink / Swallow
- Basic forms
- 飲む — to drink / base form
- 飲みます — (I) drink / masu form
- 飲んだ — drank / ta form
- 飲んで — drink (and…) / te-form
- 飲まない — don't drink / negative form
- 飲めば — if (I) drink / conditional
- 飲め — drink! / imperative
- Other common forms
- 飲みたい — want to drink / 〜たい form
- 飲める — can drink / potential
- 飲まれる — be drunk / passive
- 飲ませる — make someone drink / causative
- More
- 飲もう — let’s drink / 〜よう form
- 飲まなかった — didn’t drink / past negative
- 飲んでいる — is drinking / progressive
飲む (のむ) is a godan verb. In て- and た-forms, む changes to んで / んだ.
- 飲食 — food and drink
- 飲料 — beverage
- 飲酒 — drinking alcohol
- 飲物 — drink, beverage
- 飲食店 — restaurant / eatery
More examples - tap to expand
- 飲み会 — drinking party
- 飲料水 — drinking water
- 飲み薬 — oral medicine
飲 combines the 食 (eat) radical with 欠 (lack, open mouth). It originally depicted the act of opening one’s mouth to drink something, typically alcohol. The meaning later expanded to include all types of drinking.