召し上がる (meshiagaru) conjugation
-- honorific form of 食べる (たべる) and 飲む (のむ) --
召し上がる (めしあがる, meshiagaru) is a godan verb. Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば. 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 | 召し上がる meshiagaru | 召し上がります meshiagarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 召し上がらない meshiagaranai | 召し上がりません meshiagarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 召し上がった meshiagatta | 召し上がりました meshiagarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 召し上がらなかった meshiagaranakatta | 召し上がりませんでした meshiagarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 召し上がって meshiagatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 召し上がっている meshiagatteiru | 召し上がっています meshiagatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 召し上がりたい meshiagaritai | 召し上がりたいです meshiagaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 召し上がろう meshiagarou | 召し上がりましょう meshiagarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 召し上がれる meshiagareru | 召し上がれます meshiagaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 召し上がられる meshiagarareru | 召し上がられます meshiagararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 召し上がらせる meshiagaraseru | 召し上がらせます meshiagarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 召し上がらされる meshiagarasareru | 召し上がらされます meshiagarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 召し上がれ meshiagare | 召し上がってください meshiagattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 召し上がるな meshiagaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 召し上がれば meshiagareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 召し上がったら meshiagattara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.