見合わせる (miawaseru) conjugation
to exchange glances; to postpone
見合わせる (みあわせる, miawaseru) 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 | 見合わせる miawaseru | 見合わせます miawasemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 見合わせない miawasenai | 見合わせません miawasemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 見合わせた miawaseta | 見合わせました miawasemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 見合わせなかった miawasenakatta | 見合わせませんでした miawasemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 見合わせて miawasete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 見合わせている miawaseteiru | 見合わせています miawaseteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 見合わせたい miawasetai | 見合わせたいです miawasetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 見合わせよう miawaseyou | 見合わせましょう miawasemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 見合わせられる miawaserareru | 見合わせられます miawaseraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 見合わせられる miawaserareru | 見合わせられます miawaseraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 見合わせさせる miawasesaseru | 見合わせさせます miawasesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 見合わせさせられる miawasesaserareru | 見合わせさせられます miawasesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 見合わせろ miawasero | 見合わせてください miawasetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 見合わせるな miawaseruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 見合わせれば miawasereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 見合わせたら miawasetara | — | “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.