to try doing and see

Te-form plus みる means doing something to see what happens or what it is like. Unlike ようとする, the action is actually carried out. It conjugates like 見る: てみたい, てみてください, てみました.

Examples

• この服ふくを着きてみてもいいですか。

  Kono fuku o kite mite mo ii desu ka.

  May I try this on?

• 新あたらしいレストランに行いってみました。

  Atarashii resutoran ni itte mimashita.

  I tried going to the new restaurant.

Vocabulary in these examples

• この this (+ noun)
• 服 clothes
• 着る to wear (upper body)
• いい good; fine (also: no thank you)
• 新しい new
• レストラン restaurant

Related patterns · Te-form compounds

• 〜てしまう to finish completely; to do regrettably
• 〜ておく to do in advance, to leave as is
• 〜ていく to go on doing, to change from now on
• 〜てくる to start to, to have changed up to now