上げる (ageru) conjugation
to raise, to lift
上げる (あげる, ageru) is an ichidan verb. Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes. 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 | 上げる ageru | 上げます agemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 上げない agenai | 上げません agemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 上げた ageta | 上げました agemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 上げなかった agenakatta | 上げませんでした agemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 上げて agete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 上げている ageteiru | 上げています ageteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 上げたい agetai | 上げたいです agetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 上げよう ageyou | 上げましょう agemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 上げられる agerareru | 上げられます ageraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 上げられる agerareru | 上げられます ageraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 上げさせる agesaseru | 上げさせます agesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 上げさせられる agesaserareru | 上げさせられます agesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 上げろ agero | 上げてください agetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 上げるな ageruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 上げれば agereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 上げたら agetara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.