差し上げる (sashiageru) conjugation
-- humble expression for あげる --
差し上げる (さしあげる, sashiageru) 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 | 差し上げる sashiageru | 差し上げます sashiagemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 差し上げない sashiagenai | 差し上げません sashiagemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 差し上げた sashiageta | 差し上げました sashiagemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 差し上げなかった sashiagenakatta | 差し上げませんでした sashiagemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 差し上げて sashiagete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 差し上げている sashiageteiru | 差し上げています sashiageteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 差し上げたい sashiagetai | 差し上げたいです sashiagetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 差し上げよう sashiageyou | 差し上げましょう sashiagemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 差し上げられる sashiagerareru | 差し上げられます sashiageraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 差し上げられる sashiagerareru | 差し上げられます sashiageraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 差し上げさせる sashiagesaseru | 差し上げさせます sashiagesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 差し上げさせられる sashiagesaserareru | 差し上げさせられます sashiagesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 差し上げろ sashiagero | 差し上げてください sashiagetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 差し上げるな sashiageruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 差し上げれば sashiagereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 差し上げたら sashiagetara | — | “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.