告げる (tsugeru) conjugation
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告げる (つげる, tsugeru) 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 | 告げる tsugeru | 告げます tsugemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 告げない tsugenai | 告げません tsugemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 告げた tsugeta | 告げました tsugemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 告げなかった tsugenakatta | 告げませんでした tsugemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 告げて tsugete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 告げている tsugeteiru | 告げています tsugeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 告げたい tsugetai | 告げたいです tsugetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 告げよう tsugeyou | 告げましょう tsugemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 告げられる tsugerareru | 告げられます tsugeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 告げられる tsugerareru | 告げられます tsugeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 告げさせる tsugesaseru | 告げさせます tsugesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 告げさせられる tsugesaserareru | 告げさせられます tsugesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 告げろ tsugero | 告げてください tsugetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 告げるな tsugeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 告げれば tsugereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 告げたら tsugetara | — | “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.
