Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4

Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Pronunciation edit

  • Tokyo pitch accent of conjugated forms of "差し上げる"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Terminal (終止形)
Attributive (連体形)
差し上げる しあげる [sàshíágérú]
Imperative (命令形) 差し上げろ しあげろ [sàshíágéró]
Key constructions
Passive 差し上げられる しあげられる [sàshíágérárérú]
Causative 差し上げさせる しあげさせる [sàshíágésásérú]
Potential 差し上げられる しあげられる [sàshíágérárérú]
Volitional 差し上げよう しあげよ [sàshíágéyóꜜò]
Negative 差し上げない しあげない [sàshíágénáí]
Negative perfective 差し上げなかった しあげなかった [sàshíágénáꜜkàttà]
Formal 差し上げます しあげま [sàshíágémáꜜsù]
Perfective 差し上げた しあげた [sàshíágétá]
Conjunctive 差し上げて しあげて [sàshíágété]
Hypothetical conditional 差し上げれば しあげれ [sàshíágéréꜜbà]

Verb edit

()()げる (sashiagerutransitive ichidan (stem ()() (sashiage), past ()()げた (sashiageta))

  1. lift up, raise
    (おお)きな(いし)頭上高々(ずじょうたかだか)()()げた
    ōkina ishi o zujō takadaka to sashiageta
    Raised the big stone high above the head
  2. (humble) give
    この(かがみ)をあなたに()()げます
    kono kagami o anata ni sashiagemasu
    This mirror is for you

Usage notes edit

The giver is always the speaker or someone close to the speaker such as a family member. The receiver is always someone of higher social status than the speaker.

Conjugation edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.