見せる (miseru) conjugation
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見せる (みせる, miseru) 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 | 見せる miseru | 見せます misemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 見せない misenai | 見せません misemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 見せた miseta | 見せました misemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 見せなかった misenakatta | 見せませんでした misemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 見せて misete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 見せている miseteiru | 見せています miseteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 見せたい misetai | 見せたいです misetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 見せよう miseyou | 見せましょう misemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 見せられる miserareru | 見せられます miseraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 見せられる miserareru | 見せられます miseraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 見せさせる misesaseru | 見せさせます misesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 見せさせられる misesaserareru | 見せさせられます misesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 見せろ misero | 見せてください misetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 見せるな miseruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 見せれば misereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 見せたら misetara | — | “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.
