How to Say ‘To watch / to see’ in Japanese
見る
miru
[mee-roo]
💬 Usage Tip: [見る] works for watching (movies) and looking (at photos). Polite: [見ます]. Past: [見ました].
🇯🇵 In Japan: Because Japanese often omits subjects, [見る] + context does a lot of work—listen for what’s being watched/seen.
Phrase Breakdown
見る
miru
[mee-roo]
to watch; to see; to look
Verb used for watching movies/TV (映画を見る), seeing something (景色を見る), or checking something (メッセージを見る). Useful for date talk: what you watch lately.
最近どんな映画を見る？
What kind of movies have you been watching lately?
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