てごらん (Te goran) Meaning Japanese Grammar - Please Try To Do
Anna Baffa Volpe
3 min reading time
Updated on 16 September 2023
The expression てごらん (te goran) means try to do it, please try to, please do.
It is an imperative expression in polite form and the meaning is that of てみる: try to do.
Let's look at the meaning and usage of てごらんい and てごらんなさい, another common form in the daily conversation in Japan.
How てごらん is formed
The kanji transcription of てごらん is てご覧.
The structure is formed by:
「～てみる」と同じく「試す」という意味を表します. It means try to like ~temiru.
触ってごらん。ウールだよ。
Touch it. It's wool!
てごらん as an invitation to do something
The form てご覧 is used with the meaning of てみる try to do.
「てごらん」 is a polite form and is used to encourage our interlocutor to do something.
It is an imperative expression and is also used to give an order, so it is not appropriate towards superiors.
It is used, for example, by parents towards their children.
食べてごらん。
Give it a try and eat!
もう一度やってごらん。
Try it again one more time.
てごらんなさい Imperative Form
The structure てごらん followed by なさい is stronger than てごらん and gives more emphasis to what we are asking.
絶対できるから、まずは一度やってごらんなさい。
You can definitely do it, so please try it once!
この曲いいよ。聞いてごらん。
This song is beautiful. Listen!
Honorific forms of 見る
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あなたが思うようにやってごらん。
Go ahead and do it as you think.
自然をこんなふうに見てごらん。
Look at nature this way!
ほら、見てごらん。空に虹が出ているよ。
Look at that! There's a rainbow in the sky.
