引き上げる (hikiageru) conjugation
to withdraw, to leave, to pull out
引き上げる (ひきあげる, hikiageru) 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 | 引き上げる hikiageru | 引き上げます hikiagemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 引き上げない hikiagenai | 引き上げません hikiagemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 引き上げた hikiageta | 引き上げました hikiagemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 引き上げなかった hikiagenakatta | 引き上げませんでした hikiagemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 引き上げて hikiagete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 引き上げている hikiageteiru | 引き上げています hikiageteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 引き上げたい hikiagetai | 引き上げたいです hikiagetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 引き上げよう hikiageyou | 引き上げましょう hikiagemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 引き上げられる hikiagerareru | 引き上げられます hikiageraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 引き上げられる hikiagerareru | 引き上げられます hikiageraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 引き上げさせる hikiagesaseru | 引き上げさせます hikiagesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 引き上げさせられる hikiagesaserareru | 引き上げさせられます hikiagesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 引き上げろ hikiagero | 引き上げてください hikiagetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 引き上げるな hikiageruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 引き上げれば hikiagereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 引き上げたら hikiagetara | — | “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.