持ち上げる (mochiageru) conjugation
to raise, to lift up, to flatter
持ち上げる (もちあげる, mochiageru) 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 | 持ち上げる mochiageru | 持ち上げます mochiagemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 持ち上げない mochiagenai | 持ち上げません mochiagemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 持ち上げた mochiageta | 持ち上げました mochiagemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 持ち上げなかった mochiagenakatta | 持ち上げませんでした mochiagemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 持ち上げて mochiagete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 持ち上げている mochiageteiru | 持ち上げています mochiageteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 持ち上げたい mochiagetai | 持ち上げたいです mochiagetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 持ち上げよう mochiageyou | 持ち上げましょう mochiagemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 持ち上げられる mochiagerareru | 持ち上げられます mochiageraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 持ち上げられる mochiagerareru | 持ち上げられます mochiageraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 持ち上げさせる mochiagesaseru | 持ち上げさせます mochiagesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 持ち上げさせられる mochiagesaserareru | 持ち上げさせられます mochiagesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 持ち上げろ mochiagero | 持ち上げてください mochiagetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 持ち上げるな mochiageruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 持ち上げれば mochiagereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 持ち上げたら mochiagetara | — | “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.