expression:

• you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; judge a man by living with him, and try a horse by riding him [literal] - proverb

expression:

• you can't judge someone until you've spent time with them; you can't judge something until you've tried it; try a horse by riding him, and judge a man by living with him [literal] - proverb ➜ 人には添うてみよ馬には乗ってみよ【ひとにはそうてみようまにはのってみよ】

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to bite at; to snap at; to nibble ➜ 食らいつく
• to get one's teeth into (metaphorically); to get to grips with; to really get into ➜ 食らいつく
• to hold on to; to cling to; to stick to
• to complain; to bicker

noun:

• benefits gained in this world through observance of the Buddhist teachings; happiness gained in this world through observance of the Buddhist teachings - four character idiom - Buddhism term

noun:

• house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.) ➜ 下院【かいん】
• graduate school; postgraduate school

suffix:

• institution (often medical); institutional building; government office ➜ 医院【いいん】・病院【びょういん】
• sub-temple; minor temple building; temple; cloister - Buddhism term

noun:

• imperial palace - honorific language
• title bestowed on empresses, princesses, etc. - honorific language - archaism ➜ 女院【にょういん】

suffix:

• former (esp. of emperors, daimyos, etc.); late

noun:

• the principle (philosophy) of see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil; the policy of "see-not, hear-not, and speak-not" - four character idiom

noun:

• squirrel's foot fern (Davallia mariesii)
• Lepisorus thunbergianus (species of fern) ➜ 軒忍
• color of clothing layers under one's overcoat (light green on blue) ➜ 襲の色目
• ancient women's hairstyle - abbreviation ➜ 忍髷
• clothing patterned using squirrel's foot fern - abbreviation ➜ 忍摺

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to descend; to go down; to come down
• to be handed down (of an order, judgment, etc.)
• to pass (of time)
• to surrender; to capitulate
• to be less than; to be inferior to - often in neg. form
• to have the runs; to have diarrhea - also written as 瀉る ➜ 腹が下る
• to pass (in stool); to be discharged from the body
• to depreciate oneself; to be humble - archaism

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to gulp down; to swallow deeply
• to understand; to take in; to catch on to; to learn; to digest
• to engulf; to swallow up
• to be filled with (people); to be crowded
• to hold back from saying something; to swallow (one's words)

noun / ~する noun:

• carrying out one's duties
• ruling a fief; ruling a territory given by one's liege

noun:

• territory given by one's liege; fief; fiefdom

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to associate with; to keep company with; to go out with; to go steady with; to get on with
• to go along with; to follow someone's lead; to accompany someone; to compromise

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to finish; to stop; to end; to put an end to; to bring to a close
• to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to shut down; to shut up
• to put away; to put back; to keep; to store

auxiliary verb / godan ~う verb:

• to finish ...; to do ... completely - after the -te form of a verb, indicates completion (and sometimes reluctance, regret, etc.)

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to try to ...; to be about to do ... - after the volitional form of verb
• to decide to ... - after the dictionary form of verb
• to take as; to treat as; to regard as
• to use for
• to suppose that (such) is the case; to assume
• to decide that; to think that
• to make into; to change into
• to feel (e.g. after sound symbolism or psychological experience word); to look; to feel like
• to intend; to have the intention - with を目的

noun:

• disco dancing with synchronized arm motions

~と adverb:

• falling in (large) drops (e.g. rain, hail); sprinkle (e.g. rain, salt); pattering; clattering (e.g. hail) - onomatopoeia
• flipping through a book; thumbing through a book; riffling cards - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / adjectival noun:

• sparse; scattered (e.g. clumps of grass) - onomatopoeia

~と adverb / ~の noun:

• crumbly (e.g. tofu, cheese, non-sticky rice); loose and falling apart - onomatopoeia

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• not less than; ... and more; ... and upwards ➜ 余
• beyond ... (e.g. one's means); further (e.g. nothing further to say); more than ... (e.g. cannot pay more than that)
• above-mentioned; foregoing
• since ...; seeing that ...
• this is all; that is the end; the end

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to stretch; to extend; to lengthen; to grow (of hair, height, grass, etc.)
• to straighten out; to be flattened; to become smooth
• to spread (of paint, cream, etc.)
• to stretch out (e.g. of a hand); to extend
• to lose elasticity; to become slack; to become soggy (e.g. noodles)
• to make progress; to develop; to expand; to increase; to improve ［伸びる］
• to be exhausted; to be groggy; to pass out; to collapse ［伸びる］
• to be prolonged (meeting, life span, etc.); to be extended (e.g. deadline); to lengthen (e.g. of the days) ［延びる］
• to be postponed; to be delayed; to be put off ［延びる］

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to draw on one's experience; to make good use of one's experience; to turn one's experience to good account

noun:

• blindness in one eye; having one eye much bigger than the other; someone blind in one eye; someone with one eye much bigger than the other - sensitive

noun / ~の noun:

• the latter

noun:

• the former

noun:

• (the) date

noun:

• the capital

noun / ~の noun:

• the oldest

noun / ~の noun:

• the following Antonym: 上記

noun:

• the 1900s