見掛ける (mikakeru) conjugation
to (happen to see), to notice, to catch sight of
見掛ける (みかける, mikakeru) 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 | 見掛ける mikakeru | 見掛けます mikakemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 見掛けない mikakenai | 見掛けません mikakemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 見掛けた mikaketa | 見掛けました mikakemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 見掛けなかった mikakenakatta | 見掛けませんでした mikakemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 見掛けて mikakete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 見掛けている mikaketeiru | 見掛けています mikaketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 見掛けたい mikaketai | 見掛けたいです mikaketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 見掛けよう mikakeyou | 見掛けましょう mikakemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 見掛けられる mikakerareru | 見掛けられます mikakeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 見掛けられる mikakerareru | 見掛けられます mikakeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 見掛けさせる mikakesaseru | 見掛けさせます mikakesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 見掛けさせられる mikakesaserareru | 見掛けさせられます mikakesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 見掛けろ mikakero | 見掛けてください mikaketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 見掛けるな mikakeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 見掛ければ mikakereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 見掛けたら mikaketara | — | “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.