expression / godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to take pride in; to pride oneself; to be proud of

adverb / expression:

• as you please; in any way you like; as you wish

expression / ichidan verb:

• to live under another's roof; to become a dependent on
• to flatten oneself (against); to lean in close to

noun:

• pair; couple; set
• antithesis ➜ 対句

counter:

• counter for items that come in pairs
• counter for sets (of clothes, small furniture, utensils, etc.)

adjectival noun / ~の noun / adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• loose (of clothing); baggy - onomatopoeia ➜ ぶかぶか・ゆったり・たぶたぶ

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• flabby; saggy - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb / adjectival noun / ~する noun:

• sloshing; slopping; overflowing - onomatopoeia

adverb / ~と adverb:

• plenty (of pouring a liquid); drowning (e.g. in a sauce) - onomatopoeia

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to knock together; to strike against each other
• to arrange (e.g. a meeting); to discuss (in advance)

noun:

• reason; principle; logic
• general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon) - Buddhism term ➜ 事【じ】
• (in neo-Confucianism) the underlying principles of the cosmos

suffix / adjective:

• extremely; in the extreme; knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness); unparalleled - suffix often in kana

adjective:

• boundless (e.g. universe, ocean); limitless

noun / ~する noun:

• accompanying; being in attendance on

noun:

• inner offerer (any of the 10 high-ranking monks serving at the inner offering hall) - abbreviation ➜ 内供奉

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• (just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine) - four character idiom

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention ➜ 相槌【あいづち】

noun:

• small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit)

noun:

• sea sand (sand collected from the ocean floor, as opposed to that which is used as an ingredient in concrete)

noun:

• very auspicious day for all types of occasions (one of the six special days in the Japanese lunisolar calendar) - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• preaching down; breaking down somebody's false beliefs through confrontation (in order to convert them to the right faith) - Buddhism term

noun:

• people from overseas, especially from China and Korea, who settled in early Japan and introduced Continental culture to the Japanese

noun:

• quasi-drug; medicated products; quasi-medicine; product with relatively mild medicinal effect, sold in general stores as well as pharmacies

adjectival noun:

• madly in love; completely charmed (by); head over heels (for)

adverb:

• from the heart; entirely; completely

noun:

• bottom of one's heart - archaism

noun:

• material before the opening credits in a film, anime, etc. - From English "avant title"

suffix:

• taking a quantity (of time, people, etc.)
• similar to ...
• dependent on ...; reliant on ...
• while ...; when ...; in the midst of ... - after the -masu stem of a verb

noun:

• Parsee; Parsi (adherent of Zoroastrianism, esp. descendants of those who fled to India to escape persecution in Persia)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• brimming with youthful enthusiasm; in high spirits; raring to go; overflowing with youthful energy; acting all cute and charged up - used mainly of girls - onomatopoeia - colloquialism ➜ 浮き浮き

noun:

• the 83 new LDP members of parliament elected in the Sept. 2005 general election; children of (Junichiro) Koizumi [literal] - colloquialism ➜ ８３会【はちさんかい】

noun:

• autotomy; self amputation; act of cutting off a part of one's own body in order to escape a predator

noun:

• Isogomphodon (genus of requiem shark in the family Carcharhinidae with one extant species known as the daggernose shark)