お目に掛かる (omenikakaru) conjugation
meet ~, see ~
お目に掛かる (おめにかかる, omenikakaru) 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 | お目に掛かる omenikakaru | お目に掛かります omenikakarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | お目に掛からない omenikakaranai | お目に掛かりません omenikakarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | お目に掛かった omenikakatta | お目に掛かりました omenikakarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | お目に掛からなかった omenikakaranakatta | お目に掛かりませんでした omenikakarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | お目に掛かって omenikakatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | お目に掛かっている omenikakatteiru | お目に掛かっています omenikakatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | お目に掛かりたい omenikakaritai | お目に掛かりたいです omenikakaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | お目に掛かろう omenikakarou | お目に掛かりましょう omenikakarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | お目に掛かれる omenikakareru | お目に掛かれます omenikakaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | お目に掛かられる omenikakarareru | お目に掛かられます omenikakararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | お目に掛からせる omenikakaraseru | お目に掛からせます omenikakarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | お目に掛からされる omenikakarasareru | お目に掛からされます omenikakarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | お目に掛かれ omenikakare | お目に掛かってください omenikakattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | お目に掛かるな omenikakaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | お目に掛かれば omenikakareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | お目に掛かったら omenikakattara | — | “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.