見舞う (mimau) conjugation
to ask after (health), to visit
見舞う (みまう, mimau) 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 | 見舞う mimau | 見舞います mimaimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 見舞わない mimawanai | 見舞いません mimaimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 見舞った mimatta | 見舞いました mimaimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 見舞わなかった mimawanakatta | 見舞いませんでした mimaimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 見舞って mimatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 見舞っている mimatteiru | 見舞っています mimatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 見舞いたい mimaitai | 見舞いたいです mimaitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 見舞おう mimaou | 見舞いましょう mimaimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 見舞える mimaeru | 見舞えます mimaemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 見舞われる mimawareru | 見舞われます mimawaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 見舞わせる mimawaseru | 見舞わせます mimawasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 見舞わされる mimawasareru | 見舞わされます mimawasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 見舞え mimae | 見舞ってください mimattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 見舞うな mimauna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 見舞えば mimaeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 見舞ったら mimattara | — | “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.