顧みる (kaerimiru) conjugation
to look back, to turn around, to review
顧みる (かえりみる, kaerimiru) is an ichidan verb. Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes. Every form below is tappable — hear it, then say it back.
Conjugation table
| Form | Plain (casual) | Polite (~ます) | When you use it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dictionary / plain | 顧みる kaerimiru | 顧みます kaerimimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 顧みない kaeriminai | 顧みません kaerimimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 顧みた kaerimita | 顧みました kaerimimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 顧みなかった kaeriminakatta | 顧みませんでした kaerimimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 顧みて kaerimite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 顧みている kaerimiteiru | 顧みています kaerimiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 顧みたい kaerimitai | 顧みたいです kaerimitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 顧みよう kaerimiyou | 顧みましょう kaerimimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 顧みられる kaerimirareru | 顧みられます kaerimiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 顧みられる kaerimirareru | 顧みられます kaerimiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 顧みさせる kaerimisaseru | 顧みさせます kaerimisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 顧みさせられる kaerimisaserareru | 顧みさせられます kaerimisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 顧みろ kaerimiro | 顧みてください kaerimitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 顧みるな kaerimiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 顧みれば kaerimireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 顧みたら kaerimitara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.