栄える (sakaeru) conjugation
to flourish, to prosper, to thrive
栄える (さかえる, sakaeru) 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 | 栄える sakaeru | 栄えます sakaemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 栄えない sakaenai | 栄えません sakaemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 栄えた sakaeta | 栄えました sakaemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 栄えなかった sakaenakatta | 栄えませんでした sakaemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 栄えて sakaete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 栄えている sakaeteiru | 栄えています sakaeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 栄えたい sakaetai | 栄えたいです sakaetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 栄えよう sakaeyou | 栄えましょう sakaemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 栄えられる sakaerareru | 栄えられます sakaeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 栄えられる sakaerareru | 栄えられます sakaeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 栄えさせる sakaesaseru | 栄えさせます sakaesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 栄えさせられる sakaesaserareru | 栄えさせられます sakaesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 栄えろ sakaero | 栄えてください sakaetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 栄えるな sakaeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 栄えれば sakaereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 栄えたら sakaetara | — | “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.
