読み上げる (yomiageru) conjugation
to read out loud (and clearly), to call a roll
読み上げる (よみあげる, yomiageru) 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 | 読み上げる yomiageru | 読み上げます yomiagemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 読み上げない yomiagenai | 読み上げません yomiagemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 読み上げた yomiageta | 読み上げました yomiagemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 読み上げなかった yomiagenakatta | 読み上げませんでした yomiagemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 読み上げて yomiagete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 読み上げている yomiageteiru | 読み上げています yomiageteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 読み上げたい yomiagetai | 読み上げたいです yomiagetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 読み上げよう yomiageyou | 読み上げましょう yomiagemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 読み上げられる yomiagerareru | 読み上げられます yomiageraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 読み上げられる yomiagerareru | 読み上げられます yomiageraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 読み上げさせる yomiagesaseru | 読み上げさせます yomiagesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 読み上げさせられる yomiagesaserareru | 読み上げさせられます yomiagesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 読み上げろ yomiagero | 読み上げてください yomiagetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 読み上げるな yomiageruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 読み上げれば yomiagereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 読み上げたら yomiagetara | — | “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.