上がる (agaru) conjugation
to rise, to go up
上がる (あがる, agaru) is a godan verb. Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば. Every form below is tappable — hear it, then say it back.
Conjugation table
| Form | Plain (casual) | Polite (~ます) | When you use it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dictionary / plain | 上がる agaru | 上がります agarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 上がらない agaranai | 上がりません agarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 上がった agatta | 上がりました agarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 上がらなかった agaranakatta | 上がりませんでした agarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 上がって agatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 上がっている agatteiru | 上がっています agatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 上がりたい agaritai | 上がりたいです agaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 上がろう agarou | 上がりましょう agarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 上がれる agareru | 上がれます agaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 上がられる agarareru | 上がられます agararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 上がらせる agaraseru | 上がらせます agarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 上がらされる agarasareru | 上がらされます agarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 上がれ agare | 上がってください agattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 上がるな agaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 上がれば agareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 上がったら agattara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.