広げる (hirogeru) conjugation
to spread, to extend, to expand, to enlarge
広げる (ひろげる, hirogeru) 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 | 広げる hirogeru | 広げます hirogemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 広げない hirogenai | 広げません hirogemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 広げた hirogeta | 広げました hirogemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 広げなかった hirogenakatta | 広げませんでした hirogemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 広げて hirogete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 広げている hirogeteiru | 広げています hirogeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 広げたい hirogetai | 広げたいです hirogetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 広げよう hirogeyou | 広げましょう hirogemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 広げられる hirogerareru | 広げられます hirogeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 広げられる hirogerareru | 広げられます hirogeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 広げさせる hirogesaseru | 広げさせます hirogesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 広げさせられる hirogesaserareru | 広げさせられます hirogesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 広げろ hirogero | 広げてください hirogetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 広げるな hirogeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 広げれば hirogereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 広げたら hirogetara | — | “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.