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訪ねる · ichidan verb

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	訪たずねる	訪たずねない
Polite	訪たずねます	訪たずねません
Past polite	訪たずねました	訪たずねませんでした
Past	訪たずねた	訪たずねなかった
Te-form	訪たずねて	訪たずねないで
Desire	訪たずねたい	訪たずねたくない
Potential	訪たずねられるalso 訪たずねれる	訪たずねられないalso 訪たずねれない
Passive	訪たずねられる	訪たずねられない
Causative	訪たずねさせる	訪たずねさせない
Causative passive	訪たずねさせられる	訪たずねさせられない
Volitional	訪たずねよう
Polite volitional	訪たずねましょう
Imperative	訪たずねろ	訪たずねるな
Conditional	訪たずねれば	訪たずねなければ
Tara conditional	訪たずねたら	訪たずねなかったら

Meanings

ichidan verb, transitive verb

visit; call on; pay a visit to

General verb for visiting a person, place, or institution, often with a sense of purpose or intentionality. Slightly more formal than 行く, but common in everyday speech.

週しゅう末まつに祖そ母ぼを訪たずねるつもりです。
I plan to visit my grandmother this weekend.
彼かれは京きょう都との古ふるい寺てらを訪たずねた。
He visited an old temple in Kyoto.

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Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉を訪たずねるto visit someone
久ひさしぶりに恩おん師しを訪たずねた。
I visited my old teacher for the first time in a while.
〈場ば所しょ〉を訪たずねるto visit a place
旅りょ行こうで古ふるい神じん社じゃを訪たずねた。
On the trip, I visited an old shrine.
〈人ひと〉の家いえを訪たずねるto visit someone's house
友ゆう人じんの家いえを訪たずねて近きん況きょうを話はなした。
I visited my friend's house and talked about how things were going.

Kanji

訪call on, visit, look up

Related words· 6

訪おとずれるN2
訪ねる is used for a deliberate, personal visit to a specific person or place, while 訪れる is more literary and can also describe seasons or abstract things arriving.
訪ほう問もんN4
訪問する is a formal, often business or official word for paying a visit, while 訪ねる is the everyday word for going to see someone or somewhere.
立たち寄よるN1
立ち寄る means to drop by a place briefly, often on the way somewhere and without a strong purpose, while 訪ねる implies a more deliberate, intentional visit.
伺うかがうN4
訪ねる is the plain, neutral verb for visiting someone, while 伺う is its humble form used when the speaker visits a superior or respected person.

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見み舞まうN2
訪ねる is a neutral verb for visiting a person or place, while 見舞う specifically implies visiting someone who is sick, injured, or in trouble to comfort them.
遊あそびに行いくN5
訪ねる is a more formal word for visiting someone, while 遊びに行く is casual and emphasizes going for fun or a relaxed visit.

Politeness

伺うかがうhumble 謙譲語N4
伺う is the humble form used when visiting someone of higher status, while 訪ねる is the neutral, everyday word for visiting.

Don't confuse with

尋たずねるN4
尋ねる shares the same reading たずねる with 訪ねる but means 'to ask or inquire', not 'to visit', so the kanji must be chosen carefully.

Etymology

訪ねる and 尋ねる represent historically related uses of the same native verb, whose senses included seeking, inquiring, and visiting. The spellings now distinguish visiting from asking or searching.