立ち去る (tachisaru) conjugation
to leave, to depart
立ち去る (たちさる, tachisaru) is a godan verb. Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば. 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 | 立ち去る tachisaru | 立ち去ります tachisarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 立ち去らない tachisaranai | 立ち去りません tachisarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 立ち去った tachisatta | 立ち去りました tachisarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 立ち去らなかった tachisaranakatta | 立ち去りませんでした tachisarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 立ち去って tachisatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 立ち去っている tachisatteiru | 立ち去っています tachisatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 立ち去りたい tachisaritai | 立ち去りたいです tachisaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 立ち去ろう tachisarou | 立ち去りましょう tachisarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 立ち去れる tachisareru | 立ち去れます tachisaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 立ち去られる tachisarareru | 立ち去られます tachisararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 立ち去らせる tachisaraseru | 立ち去らせます tachisarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 立ち去らされる tachisarasareru | 立ち去らされます tachisarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 立ち去れ tachisare | 立ち去ってください tachisattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 立ち去るな tachisaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 立ち去れば tachisareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 立ち去ったら tachisattara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.