見上げる (miageru) conjugation
to look up at, to admire
見上げる (みあげる, miageru) 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 | 見上げる miageru | 見上げます miagemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 見上げない miagenai | 見上げません miagemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 見上げた miageta | 見上げました miagemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 見上げなかった miagenakatta | 見上げませんでした miagemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 見上げて miagete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 見上げている miageteiru | 見上げています miageteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 見上げたい miagetai | 見上げたいです miagetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 見上げよう miageyou | 見上げましょう miagemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 見上げられる miagerareru | 見上げられます miageraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 見上げられる miagerareru | 見上げられます miageraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 見上げさせる miagesaseru | 見上げさせます miagesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 見上げさせられる miagesaserareru | 見上げさせられます miagesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 見上げろ miagero | 見上げてください miagetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 見上げるな miageruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 見上げれば miagereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 見上げたら miagetara | — | “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.