見計らう (mihakarau) conjugation
to choose at one's own discretion
見計らう (みはからう, mihakarau) is a godan verb. Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば. 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 | 見計らう mihakarau | 見計らいます mihakaraimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 見計らわない mihakarawanai | 見計らいません mihakaraimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 見計らった mihakaratta | 見計らいました mihakaraimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 見計らわなかった mihakarawanakatta | 見計らいませんでした mihakaraimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 見計らって mihakaratte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 見計らっている mihakaratteiru | 見計らっています mihakaratteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 見計らいたい mihakaraitai | 見計らいたいです mihakaraitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 見計らおう mihakaraou | 見計らいましょう mihakaraimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 見計らえる mihakaraeru | 見計らえます mihakaraemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 見計らわれる mihakarawareru | 見計らわれます mihakarawaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 見計らわせる mihakarawaseru | 見計らわせます mihakarawasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 見計らわされる mihakarawasareru | 見計らわされます mihakarawasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 見計らえ mihakarae | 見計らってください mihakarattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 見計らうな mihakarauna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 見計らえば mihakaraeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 見計らったら mihakarattara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.