見渡す (miwatasu) conjugation
to look out over, to survey (scene), to take an extensive view of
見渡す (みわたす, miwatasu) 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 | 見渡す miwatasu | 見渡します miwatashimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 見渡さない miwatasanai | 見渡しません miwatashimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 見渡した miwatashita | 見渡しました miwatashimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 見渡さなかった miwatasanakatta | 見渡しませんでした miwatashimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 見渡して miwatashite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 見渡している miwatashiteiru | 見渡しています miwatashiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 見渡したい miwatashitai | 見渡したいです miwatashitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 見渡そう miwatasou | 見渡しましょう miwatashimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 見渡せる miwataseru | 見渡せます miwatasemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 見渡される miwatasareru | 見渡されます miwatasaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 見渡させる miwatasaseru | 見渡させます miwatasasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 見渡させられる miwatasaserareru | 見渡させられます miwatasaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 見渡せ miwatase | 見渡してください miwatashitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 見渡すな miwatasuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 見渡せば miwataseba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 見渡したら miwatashitara | — | “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.