見る, 見せる, 見える, 見つかる, 見つける, 見送る, 見事, 見当, 見学, 見下ろす, 見かけ, 見方, 見通し, 見地, 見合わせる, 見かける, 見つめる, 見当たる, 見込む, 見受ける, 見放す, 見返り, 見出す, 見捨てる…
These words are the ones I struggle with the most, by a LONG shot (that's including all those tiny kana-only words and all the ones starting with 何). Some are obvious – 見下ろす = look + down = overlook, 見方 = look + direction = point of view, etc. But so many either feel random (見事 = splendid? 見込む = anticipate?) and all the kana endings feel the same. I know there's a trick with transitive/intransitive, for example 見つかる is intransitive and 見つける is transitive, but why does 見かける mean "happen to see"? (Also what does かける even mean, I swear it can mean anything…). Most of these are N5/N4 words, and in the top few thousand of vocabulary by occurrence, so I do have to learn them, but so far they are just all a jumble in my head.
by otah007