見る (miru) conjugation
to see, to look
見る (みる, miru) 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 | 見る miru | 見ます mimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 見ない minai | 見ません mimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 見た mita | 見ました mimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 見なかった minakatta | 見ませんでした mimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 見て mite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 見ている miteiru | 見ています miteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 見たい mitai | 見たいです mitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 見よう miyou | 見ましょう mimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 見られる mirareru | 見られます miraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 見られる mirareru | 見られます miraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 見させる misaseru | 見させます misasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 見させられる misaserareru | 見させられます misaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 見ろ miro | 見てください mitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 見るな miruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 見れば mireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 見たら mitara | — | “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.