面する (mensuru) conjugation
to face on, to look out on to
面する (めんする, mensuru) is an irregular verb. Only する and 来る are truly irregular, and every learner meets them in week one. 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 | 面する mensuru | 面します menshimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 面しない menshinai | 面しません menshimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 面した menshita | 面しました menshimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 面しなかった menshinakatta | 面しませんでした menshimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 面して menshite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 面している menshiteiru | 面しています menshiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 面したい menshitai | 面したいです menshitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 面しよう menshiyou | 面しましょう menshimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 面できる mendekiru | 面できます mendekimasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 面される mensareru | 面されます mensaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 面させる mensaseru | 面させます mensasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 面させられる mensaserareru | 面させられます mensaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 面しろ menshiro | 面してください menshitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 面するな mensuruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 面すれば mensureba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 面したら menshitara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Only する and 来る are truly irregular, and every learner meets them in week one.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.