I Love Kanji上がる (agaru)
上がる (あがる, agaru) is a Japanese verb meaning “to rise; to go up”. It appears in JLPT N4 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- あがる
- Romaji
- agaru
- Word class
- Godan verb (う-verb) ending in る
- Level
- JLPT N4 (unofficial)
Meaning
- to rise; to go up; to come up; to ascend; to be raised · godan verb, intransitive
- to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to go in · godan verb, intransitive
- to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade · godan verb, intransitive
- to get out (of water); to come ashore; to be washed ashore · godan verb, intransitive
- to float atop the water; to surface from the sea (e.g. of a corpse); to rise to the surface · godan verb, intransitive
Example sentences
家にあがる前に靴を脱げば靴の泥を家の中に持ち込まずにすむ。
If you take your shoes off before coming into the house you won't bring in any dirt from your shoes.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 上がる
Godan verb (う-verb) ending in る. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | 上がる | あがる agaru |
| Polite (~masu) | 上がります | あがります agarimasu |
| Negative | 上がらない | あがらない agaranai |
| Polite negative | 上がりません | あがりません agarimasen |
| Past | 上がった | あがった agatta |
| Polite past | 上がりました | あがりました agarimashita |
| Negative past | 上がらなかった | あがらなかった agaranakatta |
| Te-form | 上がって | あがって agatte |
| Potential | 上がれる | あがれる agareru |
| Passive | 上がられる | あがられる agarareru |
| Causative | 上がらせる | あがらせる agaraseru |
| Volitional | 上がろう | あがろう agarou |
| Imperative | 上がれ | あがれ agare |
| Conditional (~ba) | 上がれば | あがれば agareba |
Kanji in 上がる
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 上がる.
上うえabove上着うわぎcoat上手じょうずskillful上げるあげるto raise屋上おくじょうrooftop以上いじょうnot less than ...申し上げるもうしあげるto say差し上げるさしあげるto lift up召し上がるめしあがるto eat上じょうfrom the standpoint of上かみupper reaches (of a river)上京じょうきょうgoing (up) to the capital上達じょうたつimprovement (e.g. in skill, ability)上等じょうとうsuperior
Source: JMdict entry 1352290 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.