引下げる (hikisageru) conjugation
to pull down, to lower, to reduce, to withdraw
引下げる (ひきさげる, hikisageru) 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 | 引下げる hikisageru | 引下げます hikisagemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 引下げない hikisagenai | 引下げません hikisagemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 引下げた hikisageta | 引下げました hikisagemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 引下げなかった hikisagenakatta | 引下げませんでした hikisagemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 引下げて hikisagete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 引下げている hikisageteiru | 引下げています hikisageteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 引下げたい hikisagetai | 引下げたいです hikisagetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 引下げよう hikisageyou | 引下げましょう hikisagemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 引下げられる hikisagerareru | 引下げられます hikisageraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 引下げられる hikisagerareru | 引下げられます hikisageraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 引下げさせる hikisagesaseru | 引下げさせます hikisagesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 引下げさせられる hikisagesaserareru | 引下げさせられます hikisagesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 引下げろ hikisagero | 引下げてください hikisagetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 引下げるな hikisageruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 引下げれば hikisagereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 引下げたら hikisagetara | — | “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.