見慣れる (minareru) conjugation
to become used to seeing, to be familiar with
見慣れる (みなれる, minareru) 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 | 見慣れる minareru | 見慣れます minaremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 見慣れない minarenai | 見慣れません minaremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 見慣れた minareta | 見慣れました minaremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 見慣れなかった minarenakatta | 見慣れませんでした minaremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 見慣れて minarete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 見慣れている minareteiru | 見慣れています minareteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 見慣れたい minaretai | 見慣れたいです minaretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 見慣れよう minareyou | 見慣れましょう minaremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 見慣れられる minarerareru | 見慣れられます minareraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 見慣れられる minarerareru | 見慣れられます minareraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 見慣れさせる minaresaseru | 見慣れさせます minaresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 見慣れさせられる minaresaserareru | 見慣れさせられます minaresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 見慣れろ minarero | 見慣れてください minaretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 見慣れるな minareruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 見慣れれば minarereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 見慣れたら minaretara | — | “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.