noun:

• depending on the (one's) situation (circumstances); at one's pleasure - four character idiom

expression:

• The world is covered in darkness; All is plunged into darkness - four character idiom

noun:

• adopting a married couple; married couple adopted into the family

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to stay up all night; to spend the night without sleep

noun / adverb:

• all that one has; all that there is; the whole ➜ 有りっ丈

noun:

• putting on the pressure; pushing forward
• being pressed; being under pressure

godan ~く verb:

• to make (the effort to make) oneself look cool - slang

noun:

• tiger beetle (esp. the Japanese tiger beetle, Cicindela japonica) - colloquialism ➜ 斑猫

noun:

• Franco-German War (i.e. the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871) ➜ 普仏戦争

adverb:

• early; quickly; soon - slang, ksb, arch. equiv. of 早く - colloquialism - abbreviation

noun:

• early morning; early hour; early in the day

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be on the right track; to be close enough - colloquialism ➜ いい線を行く

noun:

• miswriting a word; using the wrong kanji to write a word

noun:

• miswriting a word; using the wrong kanji to write a word ➜ 烏焉魯魚

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to expel (from the body); to excrete; to defecate; to give birth

noun:

• pen spinning; spinning a pen around between the fingers

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to know something by direct experience; to know through the skin [literal]

noun:

• withered reeds (esp. reeds that have withered in the winter)

noun:

• brown bear (esp. the Ussuri brown bear, Ursus arctos lasiotus) ➜ 羆

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to wait and see; to see how the land lies

expression:

• good evening (greeting, e.g. in emails sent in the evening) - Tōhoku dialect

expression / adverb:

• still more; even more; much more; all the more; further

expression / ~の noun:

• increased; greater

expression:

• this very day; today is the day (that ...); today for sure

yodan ~る verb (archaic) / intransitive verb:

• to be far away from the city; to be remote - archaism

noun:

• construction state; civil engineering state; country dominated by the construction industry

adverb / expression:

• at this stage; at this point; now (contrasting with the past)