How to Understand "見ます" and "見えます"?
How to understand these two Japanese words?
映画を見ます。
小野さんは若く見えますね。
I know these two usages, but I still can not tell from them, more examples would be good.

Thank you.
Andrew

Question

How to Understand "見ます" and "見えます"?
How to understand these two Japanese words?
映画を見ます。
小野さんは若く見えますね。
I know these two usages, but I still can not tell from them, more examples would be good.

Thank you.
Andrew

Answer

IMO, 見ます means "to see (a thing)", and 見えます means "to be visible". 見ます takes an object (transitive) while 見えます doesn't (intransitive).

映画を見ます。
I see (watch) a movie.

小野さんは若く見えますね。
Ono-san looks young. (Ono-san is visibly young)

10キロから、富士山を見る。
From 10 km, I see Mount Fuji.

10キロから、富士山は見えます。
From 10 km, Mount Fuji is visible (Sometimes translated as "I can see Mount Fuji")

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