見捨てる · ichidan verb
| Form | Positive | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | 見捨てる | 見捨てない |
| Polite | 見捨てます | 見捨てません |
| Past polite | 見捨てました | 見捨てませんでした |
| Past | 見捨てた | 見捨てなかった |
| Te-form | 見捨てて | 見捨てないで |
| Desire | 見捨てたい | 見捨てたくない |
| Potential | 見捨てられるalso 見捨てれる | 見捨てられないalso 見捨てれない |
| Passive | 見捨てられる | 見捨てられない |
| Causative | 見捨てさせる | 見捨てさせない |
| Causative passive | 見捨てさせられる | 見捨てさせられない |
| Volitional | 見捨てよう | |
| Polite volitional | 見捨てましょう | |
| Imperative | 見捨てろ | 見捨てるな |
| Conditional | 見捨てれば | 見捨てなければ |
| Tara conditional | 見捨てたら | 見捨てなかったら |
ichidan verb, transitive verb
abandon; forsake; desert; give up on
To abandon someone or something one was previously involved with or responsible for; implies a deliberate turning away, often with emotional weight. Used for people, causes, plans, etc.
He abandoned his family and ran away.
I hope you won't do something like forsake your friends.
The company gave up on that plan.
He didn't abandon his friend who was in trouble.
She felt as if she had been abandoned by her family.
He ended up abandoning the plan halfway through.
After the disaster, the residents abandoned the village and moved to the city.
見捨てる stresses a deliberate act of abandoning or giving up on someone, whereas 取り残す often describes an unintentional or circumstantial leaving behind.
見捨てる means to abandon someone or something emotionally or morally, a stronger and more final act than the casual neglect implied by 放る.
見捨てる is an everyday, emotionally colored verb for abandoning someone in need, whereas 遺棄 is the cold, formal/legal term used in crime reports and statutes.
見捨てる carries a stronger sense of abandoning someone in need, while 放っておく can be neutral, just leaving something as it is.
見捨てる conveys a stronger emotional sense of deserting a person, while 放り出す can be used more casually for abandoning a task or person.
見捨てる means to abandon a person by turning one's back on them, while 切り捨てる carries a sharper, more ruthless 'cast aside as worthless' nuance.
見捨てる is a verb meaning to abandon someone emotionally or morally, while 置き去り is a noun describing the physical act of leaving someone behind.
見捨てる means to abandon or forsake someone, whereas 裏切る emphasizes actively working against or violating the trust of someone.
見捨てる means to abandon or forsake someone, the opposite of 庇う's act of shielding and standing up for them.