見詰める (mitsumeru) conjugation
to stare at, to gaze at
見詰める (みつめる, mitsumeru) 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 | 見詰める mitsumeru | 見詰めます mitsumemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 見詰めない mitsumenai | 見詰めません mitsumemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 見詰めた mitsumeta | 見詰めました mitsumemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 見詰めなかった mitsumenakatta | 見詰めませんでした mitsumemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 見詰めて mitsumete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 見詰めている mitsumeteiru | 見詰めています mitsumeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 見詰めたい mitsumetai | 見詰めたいです mitsumetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 見詰めよう mitsumeyou | 見詰めましょう mitsumemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 見詰められる mitsumerareru | 見詰められます mitsumeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 見詰められる mitsumerareru | 見詰められます mitsumeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 見詰めさせる mitsumesaseru | 見詰めさせます mitsumesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 見詰めさせられる mitsumesaserareru | 見詰めさせられます mitsumesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 見詰めろ mitsumero | 見詰めてください mitsumetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 見詰めるな mitsumeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 見詰めれば mitsumereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 見詰めたら mitsumetara | — | “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.