見える (mieru) conjugation
to be visible; -- polite verb meaning 来る (くる) --
見える (みえる, mieru) 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 | 見える mieru | 見えます miemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 見えない mienai | 見えません miemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 見えた mieta | 見えました miemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 見えなかった mienakatta | 見えませんでした miemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 見えて miete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 見えている mieteiru | 見えています mieteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 見えたい mietai | 見えたいです mietaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 見えよう mieyou | 見えましょう miemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 見えられる mierareru | 見えられます mieraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 見えられる mierareru | 見えられます mieraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 見えさせる miesaseru | 見えさせます miesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 見えさせられる miesaserareru | 見えさせられます miesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 見えろ miero | 見えてください mietekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 見えるな mieruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 見えれば miereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 見えたら mietara | — | “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.
