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- 置く☆【おく】 Inflection
godan ~く verb / transitive:
- to put; to place
- to leave (behind)
- to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up
- to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire; to employ
- to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc); to bear (in mind etc)
- to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool
- to take in (boarders, etc.); to provide lodging in one's house
- to separate spatially or temporally
godan ~く verb / auxiliary verb:
- to do something in advance - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone
- to leave something in a certain state; to keep something in a certain state - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone
薬は子供の手の届かないところに置くべきだ。 Medicine should be out of the way of children.
机の上に寝かせて置くと転がって落ちることがあるので、試験管立てに立てておく。 If you leave them lying on the desk they may roll off, so stand them in the test-tube rack.
- 一生★【いっしょう】
adverbial noun / temporal noun / ~の noun:
- whole life; a lifetime; all through life; one existence; a generation; an age; the whole world; the era
~の noun:
- (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life
あなたは、一生勉強しなければならない。 You must study your whole life.
マイホームは一生の買い物だからね、そんな即断即決はできないよ。 A home is a once-in-a-lifetime purchase so you don't want to make any snap decisions.
- 飲み口【のみくち・のみぐち】呑み口・呑口・飲口
noun:
- taste (of a liquid, esp. alcoholic beverages) - usu. のみくち
- someone who enjoys alcohol
- place one's lips touch on the rim of a cup
- shape of one's mouth when drinking
- tap; faucet; spigot - usu. のみぐち
- 夜郎自大【やろうじだい】 Inflection
adjectival noun / noun:
- throwing one's weight around in a small group without knowing one's real worth in a larger world outside; being a big fish in a small pond - four character idiom
- 役不足【やくぶそく】約不足irr. Inflection
adjectival noun / noun:
- dissatisfaction with the work (role) given to one; feeling oneself above the given work (role)
- not up to the task; (being) out of one's depth - colloquialism ➜ 力不足【ちからぶそく】
- 大の虫を生かして小の虫を殺せ【だいのむしをいかしてしょうのむしをころせ】
expression:
- sacrifice something small in order to save something great; lose a leg to save one's life; let a large bug live and kill a small one [literal] - proverb
- 一杯一杯【いっぱいいっぱい】 Inflection
adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:
- one cup after another; cup by cup - four character idiom
- to the limit; to the fullest extent; absolutely the limit; the best one can do; breaking even - usually written using kana alone
- 散じる【さんじる】 Inflection
ichidan verb:
- to scatter; to disperse
- to spend on; to squander (e.g. one's fortune)
- to chase away (e.g. one's worries); to kill (pain)
- 散ずる【さんずる】 Inflection
ichidan ~ずる verb (alt. form of じる verbs):
- to scatter; to disperse
- to spend on; to squander (e.g. one's fortune)
- to chase away (e.g. one's worries); to kill (pain)
- 敵に塩を送る【てきにしおをおくる】敵に塩を贈る Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to save an enemy from trouble instead of taking advantage of their weakness; to show humanity even to one's enemy; to help one's enemy in difficulty - from Uesugi Kenshin sending salt to his enemy, Takeda Shingen, when Takeda's salt supply had been cut off
- 思いを馳せる【おもいをはせる】思いをはせる Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown) ➜ 思いを致す
- 人の金玉を握る【ひとのきんたまをにぎる】 Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to grab a person by his vulnerable spot; to curry favour with one's superior; to curry favor with one's superior
- 位置につく【いちにつく】位置に着く Inflection
expression / godan ~く verb:
- to take one's place; to take one's position; to go into position; to line up
- 束ねる☆【たばねる・つかねる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to tie up in a bundle (e.g. straw, hair, bills, letters); to bundle; to sheathe
- to govern; to manage; to control; to administer
- to fold (one's arms); to put together (one's hands) ［つかねる］
- 外題学問【げだいがくもん】
noun:
- putting on a knowing air when one only knows the title of the book (play, etc.); pretending to understand the nature of something when one only knows its name - four character idiom
- 腹ばう【はらばう】腹這う Inflection
godan ~う verb:
- to lie on one's stomach; to sleep while lying on one's stomach; to crawl on the ground; to sprawl
- 背伸び☆【せのび】背のび・背延び Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- standing on tiptoe and stretching one's back to make oneself taller; stretching oneself
- overreaching oneself; overstretching oneself; trying to do something beyond one's ability; pushing to the limit
- 働かせる☆【はたらかせる】 Inflection
ichidan verb:
- to put someone to work; to make someone work ➜ 働かす
- to use; to apply; to exert; to exercise (restraint, one's imagination, one's brain, etc.)
彼らがその少年をそんなにきつく働かせるのは残酷だ。 It is cruel of them to make the boy work so hard.
- 勤め上げる【つとめあげる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to serve out one's apprenticeship; to serve out one's time
- 舌を出す【したをだす】 Inflection
expression / godan ~す verb:
- to put out one's tongue; to stick out one's tongue
- 望みが適う【のぞみがかなう】 Inflection
expression / godan ~う verb:
- to have one's wish realized; to have one's wish realised
- おちょぼ口をする【おちょぼぐちをする】 Inflection
expression / ~する verb (irregular):
- to pucker up one's lips; to purse up one's lips
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