見つかる (mitsukaru) conjugation
to be found (v.i.), to be discovered
見つかる (みつかる, mitsukaru) 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 | 見つかる mitsukaru | 見つかります mitsukarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 見つからない mitsukaranai | 見つかりません mitsukarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 見つかった mitsukatta | 見つかりました mitsukarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 見つからなかった mitsukaranakatta | 見つかりませんでした mitsukarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 見つかって mitsukatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 見つかっている mitsukatteiru | 見つかっています mitsukatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 見つかりたい mitsukaritai | 見つかりたいです mitsukaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 見つかろう mitsukarou | 見つかりましょう mitsukarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 見つかれる mitsukareru | 見つかれます mitsukaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 見つかられる mitsukarareru | 見つかられます mitsukararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 見つからせる mitsukaraseru | 見つからせます mitsukarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 見つからされる mitsukarasareru | 見つからされます mitsukarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 見つかれ mitsukare | 見つかってください mitsukattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 見つかるな mitsukaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 見つかれば mitsukareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 見つかったら mitsukattara | — | “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.