Illustration: On a neighborhood street beside a tram line, a shopper carrying groceries unexpectedly catches sight of a familiar person seated inside a slowly passing tram.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

見みかける

mikakeru

to catch sight of

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしは安室奈美恵あむろなみえを見みかけた。

    I caught sight of Namie Amuro.

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  2. 最近彼女さいきんかのじょを見みかけない。

    We haven’t seen her of late.

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  3. 今朝駅けさえきで彼かれを見みかけましたか。

    Did you see him at the station this morning?

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Kanji in 見

  • 見see; lookOnケンKunみる・みえる・みせる

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