見違える
Japanese
| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 見 | 違 |
| み Grade: 1 | ちが Grade: S |
| kun’yomi | |
Pronunciation
- Kun’yomi
- (Tokyo) みちがえる [mìchígáérú] (Heiban – [0])[1]
- (Tokyo) みちがえる [mìchígáéꜜrù] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
- IPA(key): [mʲit͡ɕiɡa̠e̞ɾɯ̟ᵝ]
Verb
見違える (transitive, ichidan conjugation, hiragana みちがえる, rōmaji michigaeru, historical hiragana みちがへる)
- to take someone for someone else; not to recognize
- あの娘は見違えるほど美しくなった。[2]
- Ano musume wa michigaeru hodo utsukushiku natta.
- That girl has become so pretty I did not recognize her.
- あの娘は見違えるほど美しくなった。[2]
- to make a mistake (in seeing)
Conjugation
Conjugation of "見違える" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
| Stem forms | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imperfective (未然形) | 見違え | みちがえ | michigae | |
| Continuative (連用形) | 見違え | みちがえ | michigae | |
| Terminal (終止形) | 見違える | みちがえる | michigaeru | |
| Attributive (連体形) | 見違える | みちがえる | michigaeru | |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | 見違えれ | みちがえれ | michigaere | |
| Imperative (命令形) | 見違えよ¹ 見違えろ² | みちがえよ¹ みちがえろ² | michigaeyo¹ michigaero² | |
| Key constructions | ||||
| Passive | 見違えられる | みちがえられる | michigaerareru | |
| Causative | 見違えさせる 見違えさす | みちがえさせる みちがえさす | michigaesaseru michigaesasu | |
| Potential | 見違えられる 見違えれる³ | みちがえられる みちがえれる³ | michigaerareru michigaereru³ | |
| Volitional | 見違えよう | みちがえよう | michigaeyō | |
| Negative | 見違えない 見違えぬ 見違えん | みちがえない みちがえぬ みちがえん | michigaenai michigaenu michigaen | |
| Negative continuative | 見違えず | みちがえず | michigaezu | |
| Formal | 見違えます | みちがえます | michigaemasu | |
| Perfective | 見違えた | みちがえた | michigaeta | |
| Conjunctive | 見違えて | みちがえて | michigaete | |
| Hypothetical conditional | 見違えれば | みちがえれば | michigaereba | |
| ¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative ³ Colloquial potential | ||||
References
- 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- Hepburn, James Curtis (1886). A Japanese–English and English–Japanese Dictionary (改正増補和英英和語林集成) (3rd ed.).