遂げる (togeru) conjugation
to accomplish, to achieve, to carry out
遂げる (とげる, togeru) 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 | 遂げる togeru | 遂げます togemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 遂げない togenai | 遂げません togemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 遂げた togeta | 遂げました togemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 遂げなかった togenakatta | 遂げませんでした togemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 遂げて togete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 遂げている togeteiru | 遂げています togeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 遂げたい togetai | 遂げたいです togetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 遂げよう togeyou | 遂げましょう togemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 遂げられる togerareru | 遂げられます togeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 遂げられる togerareru | 遂げられます togeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 遂げさせる togesaseru | 遂げさせます togesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 遂げさせられる togesaserareru | 遂げさせられます togesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 遂げろ togero | 遂げてください togetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 遂げるな togeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 遂げれば togereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 遂げたら togetara | — | “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.