認める (mitomeru) conjugation
to recognize, to notice; to approve
認める (みとめる, mitomeru) 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 | 認める mitomeru | 認めます mitomemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 認めない mitomenai | 認めません mitomemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 認めた mitometa | 認めました mitomemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 認めなかった mitomenakatta | 認めませんでした mitomemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 認めて mitomete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 認めている mitometeiru | 認めています mitometeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 認めたい mitometai | 認めたいです mitometaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 認めよう mitomeyou | 認めましょう mitomemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 認められる mitomerareru | 認められます mitomeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 認められる mitomerareru | 認められます mitomeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 認めさせる mitomesaseru | 認めさせます mitomesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 認めさせられる mitomesaserareru | 認めさせられます mitomesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 認めろ mitomero | 認めてください mitometekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 認めるな mitomeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 認めれば mitomereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 認めたら mitometara | — | “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.
