取り上げる (toriageru) conjugation
to take up, to pick up; to confiscate
取り上げる (とりあげる, toriageru) 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 | 取り上げる toriageru | 取り上げます toriagemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 取り上げない toriagenai | 取り上げません toriagemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 取り上げた toriageta | 取り上げました toriagemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 取り上げなかった toriagenakatta | 取り上げませんでした toriagemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 取り上げて toriagete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 取り上げている toriageteiru | 取り上げています toriageteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 取り上げたい toriagetai | 取り上げたいです toriagetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 取り上げよう toriageyou | 取り上げましょう toriagemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 取り上げられる toriagerareru | 取り上げられます toriageraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 取り上げられる toriagerareru | 取り上げられます toriageraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 取り上げさせる toriagesaseru | 取り上げさせます toriagesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 取り上げさせられる toriagesaserareru | 取り上げさせられます toriagesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 取り上げろ toriagero | 取り上げてください toriagetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 取り上げるな toriageruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 取り上げれば toriagereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 取り上げたら toriagetara | — | “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.