下げる (sageru) conjugation
to lower (v.t.); to hang
下げる (さげる, sageru) 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 | 下げる sageru | 下げます sagemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 下げない sagenai | 下げません sagemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 下げた sageta | 下げました sagemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 下げなかった sagenakatta | 下げませんでした sagemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 下げて sagete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 下げている sageteiru | 下げています sageteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 下げたい sagetai | 下げたいです sagetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 下げよう sageyou | 下げましょう sagemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 下げられる sagerareru | 下げられます sageraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 下げられる sagerareru | 下げられます sageraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 下げさせる sagesaseru | 下げさせます sagesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 下げさせられる sagesaserareru | 下げさせられます sagesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 下げろ sagero | 下げてください sagetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 下げるな sageruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 下げれば sagereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 下げたら sagetara | — | “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.