仕上げる (shiageru) conjugation
to finish up, to complete
仕上げる (しあげる, shiageru) 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 | 仕上げる shiageru | 仕上げます shiagemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 仕上げない shiagenai | 仕上げません shiagemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 仕上げた shiageta | 仕上げました shiagemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 仕上げなかった shiagenakatta | 仕上げませんでした shiagemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 仕上げて shiagete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 仕上げている shiageteiru | 仕上げています shiageteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 仕上げたい shiagetai | 仕上げたいです shiagetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 仕上げよう shiageyou | 仕上げましょう shiagemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 仕上げられる shiagerareru | 仕上げられます shiageraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 仕上げられる shiagerareru | 仕上げられます shiageraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 仕上げさせる shiagesaseru | 仕上げさせます shiagesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 仕上げさせられる shiagesaserareru | 仕上げさせられます shiagesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 仕上げろ shiagero | 仕上げてください shiagetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 仕上げるな shiageruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 仕上げれば shiagereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 仕上げたら shiagetara | — | “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.