JLPT N1 · Verb

引下げる (hikisageru)

引下げる (ひきさげる, hikisageru) is a Japanese verb meaning “to lower (a price, tax, standard, etc.); to bring down”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: ひきさげる
Romaji: hikisageru
Word class: Ichidan verb (る-verb)
Level: JLPT N1 (unofficial)

Meaning

to lower (a price, tax, standard, etc.); to bring down; to reduce; to cut · ichidan verb, transitive
to demote · ichidan verb, transitive
to withdraw (a proposal, request, etc.); to abandon · ichidan verb, transitive
to withdraw (troops, etc.); to pull back; to move back · ichidan verb, transitive

Example sentences

米国連邦準備銀行は金利を引き下げました。

The Federal Reserve slashed interest rates.

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Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Conjugation of 引下げる

Ichidan verb (る-verb). Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.

Form	Japanese	Reading
Dictionary	引下げる	ひきさげる hikisageru
Polite (~masu)	引下げます	ひきさげます hikisagemasu
Negative	引下げない	ひきさげない hikisagenai
Polite negative	引下げません	ひきさげません hikisagemasen
Past	引下げた	ひきさげた hikisageta
Polite past	引下げました	ひきさげました hikisagemashita
Negative past	引下げなかった	ひきさげなかった hikisagenakatta
Te-form	引下げて	ひきさげて hikisagete
Potential	引下げられる	ひきさげられる hikisagerareru
Passive	引下げられる	ひきさげられる hikisagerareru
Causative	引下げさせる	ひきさげさせる hikisagesaseru
Volitional	引下げよう	ひきさげよう hikisageyou
Imperative	引下げろ	ひきさげろ hikisagero
Conditional (~ba)	引下げれば	ひきさげれば hikisagereba

Kanji in 引下げる

引

pull, tug, jerkイン・ひ.く・ひ.ける · 4 strokes

下

below, down, descendカ・ゲ・した・しも · 3 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 引下げる.

字引じびきdictionary引くひくto pull引っ越すひっこすto move (house)引き出しひきだしdrawer引退いんたいretirement引用いんようquotation引越しひっこしmoving (dwelling, office, etc.)引っ張るひっぱるto pull引力いんりょくattraction (e.g. magnetic, gravitation)強引ごういんoverbearing索引さくいんindex (in a book)引算ひきざんsubtraction割引わりびきdiscount長引くながびくto be prolonged

Source: JMdict entry 1601600 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.