JLPT N1 · Verb

サボる (saboru)

サボる is a Japanese verb meaning “to be truant; to slack off”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
サボる
Romaji
saboru
Word class
Godan verb (う-verb) ending in る
Level
JLPT N1 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. to be truant; to slack off; to play hooky; to skip school; to cut class · godan verb, transitive, intransitive · colloquial · from サボタージュ

Example sentences

彼らはいつも学校をサボっています。
They always escape from school.

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

Conjugation of サボる

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

FormJapaneseReading
Dictionaryサボるサボる saboru
Polite (~masu)サボりますサボります saborimasu
Negativeサボらないサボらない saboranai
Polite negativeサボりませんサボりません saborimasen
Pastサボったサボった sabotta
Polite pastサボりましたサボりました saborimashita
Negative pastサボらなかったサボらなかった saboranakatta
Te-formサボってサボって sabotte
Potentialサボれるサボれる saboreru
Passiveサボられるサボられる saborareru
Causativeサボらせるサボらせる saboraseru
Volitionalサボろうサボろう saborou
Imperativeサボれサボれ sabore
Conditional (~ba)サボればサボれば saboreba

Source: JMdict entry 1057580 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.