授ける (sazukeru) conjugation
to grant, to award, to teach
授ける (さずける, sazukeru) 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 | 授ける sazukeru | 授けます sazukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 授けない sazukenai | 授けません sazukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 授けた sazuketa | 授けました sazukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 授けなかった sazukenakatta | 授けませんでした sazukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 授けて sazukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 授けている sazuketeiru | 授けています sazuketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 授けたい sazuketai | 授けたいです sazuketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 授けよう sazukeyou | 授けましょう sazukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 授けられる sazukerareru | 授けられます sazukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 授けられる sazukerareru | 授けられます sazukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 授けさせる sazukesaseru | 授けさせます sazukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 授けさせられる sazukesaserareru | 授けさせられます sazukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 授けろ sazukero | 授けてください sazuketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 授けるな sazukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 授ければ sazukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 授けたら sazuketara | — | “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.