見違える

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term

Grade: 1
ちが
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Pronunciation

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Verb

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()(ちが)える (michigaeruみちがへる (mitigaferu)?transitive ichidan (stem ()(ちが) (michigae), past ()(ちが)えた (michigaeta))

  1. to take someone for someone else; not to recognize
    あの(むすめ)()(ちが)えるほど(うつく)しくなった。[2]
    Ano musume wa michigaeru hodo utsukushiku natta.
    That girl has become so pretty I did not recognize her.
  2. to make a mistake (in seeing)

Conjugation

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 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.).