上あげる

ichidan verb, transitive verb

raise; lift; move to a higher place

Basic transitive use: raise something upward, lift it, or put it onto a higher surface or place.

See also: 手を挙げる · 挙げる

Antonyms: 下げる

• 質しつ問もんがある人ひとは手てを上あげてください。

  If you have a question, please raise your hand.

• 箱はこを棚たなの上うえに上あげた。

  I put the box up on the shelf.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

increase; raise a price; raise a wage

Used for making a price, wage, level, quality, status, or similar value higher. 騰げる is a rare/search-only spelling especially tied to prices.

• 来らい月げつから商しょう品ひんの値ね段だんを上あげる。

  We will raise the product prices from next month.

• 会かい社しゃは社しゃ員いんの給きゅう料りょうを上あげた。

  The company raised its employees' wages.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

show someone in; let a guest in

Often means allowing someone to enter an inside or raised area of a house, such as a room, tatami room, or upstairs space.

• 客きゃくを二に階かいの座ざ敷しきに上あげた。

  They showed the guest into the upstairs tatami room.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

give

Only with reading あげる

Usually written あげる. Used when the speaker or someone on the speaker's side gives to another person; softer than やる, but not suitable for respectfully giving to a superior, where 差し上げる is used.

• 誕たん生じょう日びに妹いもうとに本ほんをあげた。

  I gave my younger sister a book for her birthday.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

send to school; enroll one's child

Used with a child or dependent as the object, meaning to send them on to school or college at one's expense or under one's care.

• 両りょう親しんは娘むすめを東とう京きょうの大だい学がくに上あげた。

  Her parents sent her to a university in Tokyo.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

improve; develop a skill

Common in fixed-feeling collocations such as 腕を上げる, meaning to improve one's ability or skill.

• 練れん習しゅうを重かさねて、彼かれはずいぶん腕うでを上あげた。

  After repeated practice, he improved his skill a great deal.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

achieve; earn; obtain a good result

Used with desirable results such as 成果, 利益, 実績, or 手柄: to produce, earn, or achieve them.

See also: 挙げる

• 新あたらしい事じ業ぎょうで大おおきな利り益えきを上あげた。

  They earned a large profit from the new business.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

promote someone

Means to move someone up to a higher position, rank, or role.

• 会かい社しゃは彼かれを部ぶ長ちょうに上あげた。

  The company promoted him to department manager.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

finish; complete

Often used for completing a piece of work or bringing it to a finished state, as in 原稿を上げる.

• 締しめ切きりまでに原げん稿こうを上あげる。

  I will finish the manuscript by the deadline.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

raise one's voice; make a loud sound

Used with 声, 音, 悲鳴, 泣き声, and similar nouns for producing or letting out a loud sound.

See also: 声を上げる · 挙げる

• 赤あかちゃんが大おおきな泣なき声ごえを上あげた。

  The baby let out a loud cry.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

raise one's face; lift one's gaze; look up

Used with 顔, 目, or 視線 when someone lifts their face or gaze upward.

• 名な前まえを呼よばれて、彼かの女じょは顔かおを上あげた。

  When her name was called, she lifted her face.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

do up one's hair

Used with 髪 to mean putting hair up rather than leaving it down.

See also: 髪を上げる

• 暑あつい日ひは髪かみを上あげている。

  On hot days, I wear my hair up.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

offer up; offer incense or a prayer

Used for offering incense, prayers, or similar things to a deity, Buddha, ancestors, or the deceased.

• 仏ぶつ壇だんに線せん香こうを上あげる。

  I offer incense at the household Buddhist altar.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

praise; commend; flatter

Limited use meaning to talk someone up or praise them; modern Japanese more commonly uses ほめる or 持ち上げる, depending on the nuance.

• ネット記き事じなどで「選せん手しゅを上あげる」と言いうと、選せん手しゅをほめて評ひょう価かを高たかく見みせる意い味みになることがある。

  In online articles and the like, 選手を上げる can mean praising a player and making them look highly valued.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

keep costs down; cover expenses within an amount; make do

Especially common as 安く上げる: to get something done at low cost or within a given budget.

• 式しきの費ひ用ようをできるだけ安やすく上あげたい。

  I want to keep the cost of the ceremony as low as possible.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

finish one's studies; complete a lesson; pass a class

Educational use meaning to complete studies, lessons, or coursework; it is limited and modern Japanese often uses 終える, 修了する, 卒業する, or 単位を取る instead.

• 古ふるい用よう法ほうでは、学がく業ぎょうを上あげるが学がく業ぎょうを終おえる意い味みで使つかわれることがある。

  In an older usage, 学業を上げる can mean to finish one's studies.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

upload; post online; publish on the internet

Internet use: to put an image, video, article, or other content online.

• 旅りょ行こうの写しゃ真しんをSNSに上あげた。

  I posted photos from the trip on social media.

ichidan verb, transitive verb

raise someone's spirits; cheer someone up; hype up the mood

Only with reading アゲる

Colloquial and often written アゲる. Used for making people, a party, music, or a mood more excited and upbeat.

• DJが会かい場じょうをアゲる。

  The DJ hypes up the venue.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

come in; rise, of the tide

Intransitive use for the tide rising or coming in; it is a specialized natural-phenomenon use.

• 夕ゆう方がたになると潮しおが上あげてくる。

  Toward evening, the tide starts to come in.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

rise in price; increase, of a market price

Finance and market usage, especially for stocks or indexes rising. Ordinary everyday Japanese often uses 上がる, but market reports also use 上げる intransitively.

• 日にっ経けい平へい均きんは取とり引ひき終しゅう了りょう前まえに上あげた。

  The Nikkei average rose before the close of trading.

ichidan verb, intransitive verb, transitive verb

vomit; throw up

Less common than 吐く or 戻す. Can be intransitive or take the thing vomited as an object, such as 胃の中のものを上げる.

• 船ふねに酔よって、胃いの中なかのものを上あげてしまった。

  I got seasick and threw up the contents of my stomach.

auxiliary verb, ichidan verb

do for someone; do as a favor

Only with reading あげる

Auxiliary after the te-form, usually written あげる. It presents the action as being done for someone else's benefit; avoid using it toward superiors if it sounds patronizing.

• 友ともだちの荷に物もつを持もってあげた。

  I carried my friend's luggage for them.

suffix, ichidan verb

finish doing; complete doing

Suffix after a verb's masu-stem, as in 作り上げる, 書き上げる, or 仕上げる, emphasizing completion or bringing something fully to a result.

See also: 作り上げる

• 職しょく人にんたちは半はん年としかけて新あたらしい橋はしを作つくり上あげた。

  The craftsmen spent half a year building the new bridge to completion.

suffix, ichidan verb

humbly do

Humble suffix after the masu-stem of a humble verb, strengthening deference in forms such as 申し上げる. It describes the speaker's or in-group's own action toward someone higher.

See also: 申し上げる

• 後のちほど詳くわしくご説せつ明めい申もうし上あげます。

  I will explain it in detail later.