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見慣れる
みなれる
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to become used to seeing, to be familiar with
Minareru is 見る (miru, “to see, look”) plus 慣れる (nareru, “to get used to”).
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In a sentence
目覚めると、見慣れない部屋にいた。
I awoke to find myself in a strange room.
霧はロンドンで見慣れた光景だった。
Fog was a familiar sight in London.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “見(み)る (miru, “to see, look”) + 慣(な)れる (nareru, “to get used to”)”
Source: Wiktionary: 見慣れる (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.