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見間違える見まちがえる
みまちがえる
1. [v1,vt]
▶ to misperceive visually
▶ to misread
▶ to mistake for something or someone else
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 2838484 見間違う【みまちがう】 1. to misperceive visually; to misread; to mistake for something or someone else

Conjugations


History:
3. A 2021-11-19 10:46:08  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Converting somebody to someone
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-
  Diff:
@@ -18 +18 @@
-<gloss>to mistake for something or somebody else</gloss>
+<gloss>to mistake for something or someone else</gloss>
2. A 2017-02-22 20:27:10  Johan Råde <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
gg5
  Diff:
@@ -18 +18 @@
-<gloss>to mistake (A for B)</gloss>
+<gloss>to mistake for something or somebody else</gloss>
1. A* 2017-02-22 20:05:01  Robin Scott
  Refs:
daijr, daijs
KM n-grams:
見間違える	1415
見まちがえる	85
  Comments:
In cases like "信号を見間違える", you're not mistaking the traffic light for something else but rather perceiving the information incorrectly (i.e. misreading).
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>見まちがえる</keb>
@@ -13,2 +16,3 @@
-<gloss>to take A for B</gloss>
-<gloss>to mistake A for B</gloss>
+<gloss>to misperceive visually</gloss>
+<gloss>to misread</gloss>
+<gloss>to mistake (A for B)</gloss>

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