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Study Resource: Te-miru Reference Sheet

By: Mayumi Ito

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These activities are part of our Japanese Grammar series. The skills we are practicing here are covered in our article:

Conjugation table for みる [miru]

This chart illustrates how to the Japanese verb みる[miru] into a variety of different tenses and forms.

Verb Form	Plain	Polite
Non-past affirmative	みる[miru]	みます[mimasu]
Non-past negative	みない[minai]	みません[mimasen]
Past affirmative	みた[mita]	みました[mimashita]
Past negative	みなかった[minakatta]	みませんでした[mimasen deshita]
Te-form	みて[mite]
Nai-stem	み (ない)[mi(nai)]
Masu-stem	み (ます)[mi(masu)]
Conditional form (ba-form)	みれば[mireba]
Volitional form	みよう[miyō]
Imperative form	みろ[miro]

te-form + みる (miru)

This chart provides examples of how you can create the te-form of different types of Japanese verbs, and combine that with the helping verb みる[miru].

Verb Type	Dictionary Form	〜てみる[te miru] form
u-verb	行く iku to go	行ってみる itte miru
u-verb	泳ぐ oyogu to swim	泳いでみる* oyoide miru
ru-verb	見る miru to look at	見てみる mite miru
ru-verb	考える kangaeru to think	考えてみる kangaete miru
irregular verb	する suru to do	してみる shite miru
irregular verb	来る kuru to come	来てみる kite miru

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