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JAPANESE VERB

そつぎょう する

卒業 する

to graduate

  • #341 most used
  • する verb

Conjugation

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Present and future

now, habits, and what is to come

Form Polite Plain
AffirmativeI graduate
NegativeI don’t graduate

Past

finished actions

Form Polite Plain
AffirmativeI graduated
NegativeI didn’t graduate

Te-form

て形 · joining actions, “doing”, requests

Form Polite Plain
て-formgraduating, and…
Doing now (て います)I am graduating
Please (て ください)please graduate

Potential

可能形 · “can”

Form Polite Plain
AffirmativeI can graduate
NegativeI can’t graduate

Want to

たい形 · “want to”

Form Polite Plain
AffirmativeI want to graduate
NegativeI don’t want to graduate

Volitional

意向形 · “let’s”, “I’ll”

Form Polite Plain
Let’slet’s graduate

Conditional

条件形 · “if” and “when”

  1. If (ば) if I graduate
  2. If, when (たら) if I graduate

Commands and requests

命令形 · from gentle to blunt

  1. Do it (なさい) graduate (do it)
  2. Plain command graduate!
  3. Please don’t please don’t graduate

Passive and causative

受身形・使役形 · “is done”, “make someone do”

Form Polite Plain
PassiveI am graduated
CausativeI make someone graduate

How to use そつぎょう する

One sentence for each tense, the way people say it.

  1. Present and future

    むすこ は らいねん の さんがつ に こうこう を そつぎょう します。

    My son graduates from high school next March.

  2. Past

    ことし だいがく を そつぎょう した。

    I graduated from university this year.

  3. Te-form

    かのじょ は もう そつぎょう して いる。

    She's already graduated.

  4. Potential

    たんい が たりなくて、 そつぎょう できない かも しれない。

    I'm short of credits; I might not be able to graduate.

  5. Want to

    よねん で そつぎょう したい。

    I want to graduate in four years.

  6. Volitional

    いっしょ に がんばって、 いっしょ に そつぎょう しよう。

    Let's work hard together and graduate together.

  7. Conditional

    そつぎょう したら、 なに を する つもり？

    What do you plan to do after you graduate?

  8. Commands and requests

    まず だいがく を ちゃんと そつぎょう しなさい。

    First, graduate from university properly.

  9. Passive and causative

    せんせい は なんとか かれ を そつぎょう させた。

    The teacher somehow got him through to graduation.

Good to know

  • そつぎょう takes を for the school: だいがく を そつぎょう する; the opposite is にゅうがく する.
  • Nobody is graduated by someone else, so the passive sentence uses the causative, a teacher getting a student through.

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The same pattern, on other verbs: する verb.