申し上げる (moushiageru) conjugation
(humble)to say, to tell
申し上げる (もうしあげる, moushiageru) 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 | 申し上げる moushiageru | 申し上げます moushiagemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 申し上げない moushiagenai | 申し上げません moushiagemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 申し上げた moushiageta | 申し上げました moushiagemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 申し上げなかった moushiagenakatta | 申し上げませんでした moushiagemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 申し上げて moushiagete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 申し上げている moushiageteiru | 申し上げています moushiageteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 申し上げたい moushiagetai | 申し上げたいです moushiagetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 申し上げよう moushiageyou | 申し上げましょう moushiagemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 申し上げられる moushiagerareru | 申し上げられます moushiageraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 申し上げられる moushiagerareru | 申し上げられます moushiageraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 申し上げさせる moushiagesaseru | 申し上げさせます moushiagesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 申し上げさせられる moushiagesaserareru | 申し上げさせられます moushiagesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 申し上げろ moushiagero | 申し上げてください moushiagetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 申し上げるな moushiageruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 申し上げれば moushiagereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 申し上げたら moushiagetara | — | “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.