過ぎる (sugiru) conjugation
to exceed, to go beyond
過ぎる (すぎる, sugiru) 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 | 過ぎる sugiru | 過ぎます sugimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 過ぎない suginai | 過ぎません sugimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 過ぎた sugita | 過ぎました sugimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 過ぎなかった suginakatta | 過ぎませんでした sugimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 過ぎて sugite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 過ぎている sugiteiru | 過ぎています sugiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 過ぎたい sugitai | 過ぎたいです sugitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 過ぎよう sugiyou | 過ぎましょう sugimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 過ぎられる sugirareru | 過ぎられます sugiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 過ぎられる sugirareru | 過ぎられます sugiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 過ぎさせる sugisaseru | 過ぎさせます sugisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 過ぎさせられる sugisaserareru | 過ぎさせられます sugisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 過ぎろ sugiro | 過ぎてください sugitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 過ぎるな sugiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 過ぎれば sugireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 過ぎたら sugitara | — | “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.
