〜てみる

Formationて form + みる

てみる is doing something to find out what happens, built on the verb for seeing. It fits tasting food, trying clothes and testing an idea. The trying is genuine: you do the thing, you just do not know how it will go.

Examples

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1. 考かんがえてみれば彼かれのいう事ことはおかしいよ。

   Come to think of it, he is wrong.

2. そのジャムをちょっとなめてみた。

   I had a lick at the jam.

3. もう一度いちどそれにトライしてみたら。

   Why don't you give it another try?

4. 私わたしはありとあらゆる方法ほうほうをやってみました。

   I have tried every way.

5. 行間ぎょうかんを読よむように心こころがけてみよう。

   Let's try to read between the lines.