見直す (minaosu) conjugation
to look over again, to review
見直す (みなおす, minaosu) 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 | 見直す minaosu | 見直します minaoshimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 見直さない minaosanai | 見直しません minaoshimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 見直した minaoshita | 見直しました minaoshimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 見直さなかった minaosanakatta | 見直しませんでした minaoshimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 見直して minaoshite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 見直している minaoshiteiru | 見直しています minaoshiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 見直したい minaoshitai | 見直したいです minaoshitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 見直そう minaosou | 見直しましょう minaoshimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 見直せる minaoseru | 見直せます minaosemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 見直される minaosareru | 見直されます minaosaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 見直させる minaosaseru | 見直させます minaosasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 見直させられる minaosaserareru | 見直させられます minaosaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 見直せ minaose | 見直してください minaoshitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 見直すな minaosuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 見直せば minaoseba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 見直したら minaoshitara | — | “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.