捧げる (sasageru) conjugation
to lift up, to give, to offer
捧げる (ささげる, sasageru) 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 | 捧げる sasageru | 捧げます sasagemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 捧げない sasagenai | 捧げません sasagemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 捧げた sasageta | 捧げました sasagemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 捧げなかった sasagenakatta | 捧げませんでした sasagemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 捧げて sasagete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 捧げている sasageteiru | 捧げています sasageteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 捧げたい sasagetai | 捧げたいです sasagetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 捧げよう sasageyou | 捧げましょう sasagemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 捧げられる sasagerareru | 捧げられます sasageraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 捧げられる sasagerareru | 捧げられます sasageraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 捧げさせる sasagesaseru | 捧げさせます sasagesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 捧げさせられる sasagesaserareru | 捧げさせられます sasagesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 捧げろ sasagero | 捧げてください sasagetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 捧げるな sasageruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 捧げれば sasagereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 捧げたら sasagetara | — | “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.