noun / ~の noun:

• origin of an illness; cause of a disease; pathogenesis; etiology

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to exert; to cause; to exercise

particle:

• indicates means of action; cause of effect; by - more emphatic than で ➜ で

noun:

• irritant; cause of irritation; cause of annoyance

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• failing to properly evaluate the (relative) importance (of); putting the cart before the horse; mistaking the cause for the end; mistaking the insignificant for the essential; getting one's priorities backwards - four character idiom

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to scatter; to cause a shower of
• to disperse; to distribute; to spread
• to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.); to relieve; to get rid of; to cure
• to distract; to divert - as 気を散らす, etc. ➜ 気を散らす

suffix / godan ~す verb:

• to do ... wildly (i.e. disorderly or frequently); to do ... all over the place - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• making oneself conspicuous; pressing one's own cause - four character idiom

expression:

• trivial; not amounting to much; not enough to cause a problem; not as much as expected

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to claim victims; to cause casualties

noun:

• primary factor; main cause ➜ 要因

expression / noun:

• why-why analysis; method of questioning that leads to the identification of the root cause(s) of a problem

noun:

• root of evil; bad cause - Buddhism term Antonym: 善因

noun / ~する noun:

• solidarity; banding together and working as one for a common cause - four character idiom

noun:

• Rhododenol; skin-whitening agent that may cause vitiligo-like symptoms

godan ~る verb:

• to have an accident (esp. traffic accident); to cause an accident - colloquialism

noun:

• lint (as in a clothes dryer or a pocket); waste thread; fibers, such as might wrap around the gears in small mechanisms and cause them to jam; fluff ➜ 綿ぼこり

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to induce sleep; to cause drowsiness

expression / godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to drive to death (e.g. by suicide); to cause to die ➜ 追いやる【おいやる】

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to annoy; to cause trouble

noun:

• miasma; (supposed) noxious gas originally believed to cause fever

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to let spoil; to leave to rot; to cause to rot; to corrode
• to discourage; to dishearten

expression / ichidan verb:

• to harm; to cause harm to

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to arouse criticism; to provoke; to cause a controversy; to give rise to hostile comment

expression / noun:

• place where fire is likely to break out; possible cause of a fire

noun:

• dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing - Buddhism term