眺める (nagameru) conjugation
to view, to gaze at
眺める (ながめる, nagameru) 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 | 眺める nagameru | 眺めます nagamemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 眺めない nagamenai | 眺めません nagamemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 眺めた nagameta | 眺めました nagamemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 眺めなかった nagamenakatta | 眺めませんでした nagamemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 眺めて nagamete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 眺めている nagameteiru | 眺めています nagameteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 眺めたい nagametai | 眺めたいです nagametaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 眺めよう nagameyou | 眺めましょう nagamemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 眺められる nagamerareru | 眺められます nagameraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 眺められる nagamerareru | 眺められます nagameraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 眺めさせる nagamesaseru | 眺めさせます nagamesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 眺めさせられる nagamesaserareru | 眺めさせられます nagamesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 眺めろ nagamero | 眺めてください nagametekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 眺めるな nagameruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 眺めれば nagamereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 眺めたら nagametara | — | “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.