去る (saru) conjugation
to leave, to go away
去る (さる, saru) 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 | 去る saru | 去ります sarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 去らない saranai | 去りません sarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 去った satta | 去りました sarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 去らなかった saranakatta | 去りませんでした sarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 去って satte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 去っている satteiru | 去っています satteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 去りたい saritai | 去りたいです saritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 去ろう sarou | 去りましょう sarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 去れる sareru | 去れます saremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 去られる sarareru | 去られます sararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 去らせる saraseru | 去らせます sarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 去らされる sarasareru | 去らされます sarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 去れ sare | 去ってください sattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 去るな saruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 去れば sareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 去ったら sattara | — | “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.