I Love Kanji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
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
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.