掲げる (kakageru) conjugation
to hoist, to fly (a sail), to float (a flag)
掲げる (かかげる, kakageru) 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 | 掲げる kakageru | 掲げます kakagemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 掲げない kakagenai | 掲げません kakagemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 掲げた kakageta | 掲げました kakagemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 掲げなかった kakagenakatta | 掲げませんでした kakagemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 掲げて kakagete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 掲げている kakageteiru | 掲げています kakageteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 掲げたい kakagetai | 掲げたいです kakagetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 掲げよう kakageyou | 掲げましょう kakagemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 掲げられる kakagerareru | 掲げられます kakageraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 掲げられる kakagerareru | 掲げられます kakageraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 掲げさせる kakagesaseru | 掲げさせます kakagesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 掲げさせられる kakagesaserareru | 掲げさせられます kakagesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 掲げろ kakagero | 掲げてください kakagetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 掲げるな kakageruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 掲げれば kakagereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 掲げたら kakagetara | — | “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.
