遮る (saegiru) conjugation
to interrupt, to intercept, to obstruct
遮る (さえぎる, saegiru) 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 | 遮る saegiru | 遮ります saegirimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 遮らない saegiranai | 遮りません saegirimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 遮った saegitta | 遮りました saegirimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 遮らなかった saegiranakatta | 遮りませんでした saegirimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 遮って saegitte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 遮っている saegitteiru | 遮っています saegitteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 遮りたい saegiritai | 遮りたいです saegiritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 遮ろう saegirou | 遮りましょう saegirimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 遮れる saegireru | 遮れます saegiremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 遮られる saegirareru | 遮られます saegiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 遮らせる saegiraseru | 遮らせます saegirasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 遮らされる saegirasareru | 遮らされます saegirasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 遮れ saegire | 遮ってください saegittekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 遮るな saegiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 遮れば saegireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 遮ったら saegittara | — | “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.