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- 引く☆【ひく】曳く・牽く Inflection
godan ~く verb / transitive:
- to pull; to tug; to lead (e.g. a horse)
- to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest) ➜ 惹く【ひく】・注意を引く
- to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to pull in
- to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
- to draw (a line, plan, etc.) ➜ 図面を引く
- to catch (a cold) ➜ 風邪を引く
- to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument) ➜ 弾く【ひく】
- to look up (e.g. a dictionary); to consult ➜ 辞書を引く
- to haul; to pull (vehicles) - esp. 牽く
- to subtract; to deduct
- to recede; to ebb; to fade
- to be descend from; to inherit (a characteristic)
- to quote; to cite; to raise (as evidence)
- to lay on (electricity, gas, etc.); to install (e.g. a telephone); to supply (e.g. water)
- to hold (e.g. a note)
- to apply (e.g. lipstick); to oil (e.g. a pan); to wax (e.g. a floor)
godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:
あんな本みたらフツーの女は引くもんな! Obviously a normal woman would lose interest if she saw a book like that!
定規は直線を引くのに役立つ。 A ruler helps one to draw a straight line.
ジョンはギターを引くことができません。 John can't play the guitar.
初めての単語を辞書でひくのはよい習慣である。 It is a good habit to look up new words in a dictionary.
10から2を引くと、8残る。 Two from ten leaves eight.
はれが引くまで何日くらいかかりますか。 How many days will it take until the swelling goes down?
- ええかっこしい・ええかっこしぃ・いいかっこしい
noun / ~の noun:
- acting cool; pretending to be a better person that one is; pretentious (person) - colloquialism - Kansai dialect
- 任せる☆【まかせる】委せるold Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to entrust (e.g. a task) to another; to leave to
- to passively leave to someone else's facilities ➜ 想像に任せる
- to leave to take its natural course ➜ 成り行きに任せる
- to continue (something) in a natural fashion (without particular aim)
- to rely fully on one's (full strength, great ability, long time taken) to get something done ➜ 力任せ
よかれあしかれ、この問題は彼に委せるほかはない。 For better or worse, we can't do anything but leave this matter up to him.
娘が卒業した後は自分の好きに任せることにきめた。 We have decided to leave our daughter to herself after she left school.
- 自作自演【じさくじえん】 Inflection
noun / ~する noun:
- performing a part in one's own play; playing a musical piece that one has written - four character idiom
- doing everything by oneself (from preparation to execution)
- put-up job; charade
- sock-puppeting (i.e. pretending to be more than one person on the Internet)
- 言い始める【いいはじめる】 Inflection
ichidan verb:
- to say previously unspoken thoughts
- to start saying
- to court someone
- 決める☆【きめる】極める Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to decide; to choose; to determine; to make up one's mind; to resolve; to set one's heart on; to settle; to arrange; to set; to appoint; to fix
- to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match)
- to persist in doing; to go through with
- to always do; to have made a habit of - as 決めている
- to take for granted; to assume
- to dress up; to dress to kill; to dress to the nines
- to carry out successfully (a move in sports, a pose in dance, etc.); to succeed in doing
- to immobilize with a double-arm lock (in sumo, judo, etc.) - Martial Arts, Sumo term
- to eat or drink something; to take illegal drugs
私たちがそこへ行くかどうかを決めるのは君の責任だ。 It's up to you to decide whether we'll go there or not.
屋根の勾配をどうするか決めるのはとても重要です。 It is very important to decide what to do about the slope of the roof.
どんな組織であれ、内部の融和と団結はその組織の成敗を決める重要な要素だ。 For any type of organisation, internal harmony and unity are important factors in deciding its success or failure.
- 空気が読めない【くうきがよめない】 Inflection
expression / adjective:
- unable to read the situation; unable to pick up on the mood (e.g. of a conversation) ➜ 空気を読む
- 預ける☆【あずける】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to leave (in someone's keeping); to put (in someone's care); to place (in someone's custody); to entrust (someone) with; to deposit
- to put (someone) in charge of; to leave (a matter) in someone's hands; to let (someone) decide
- to lean on; to put one's weight on
- ぐらつく・グラつく Inflection
godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:
- to be unsteady; to reel; to shake
- to waver; to be unsettled (feelings, thoughts, etc.)
- 召す☆【めす】 Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to call; to invite; to send for; to summon - honorific language
- to eat; to drink
- to put on; to wear
- to ride
- to catch (a cold); to take (a bath); to tickle (one's fancy); to put on (years); to commit (seppuku)
- to do ➜ 召される
- used to show respect - used after the -masu stem of a verb - honorific language - archaism
- 挿す【さす】 Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- 分ける★【わける】別ける Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to divide (into); to split (into); to part; to separate; to divide up; to classify; to sort out; to divide out
- to share; to distribute; to deal out; to dish out
- to distinguish; to discriminate; to differentiate (between)
- to break up (a fight); to mediate
- to call a draw; to tie
- to push one's way through (a crowd)
- to sell - also written as 頒ける
霧が深かったので、歩いている人たちの姿を似分けるのは困難だった。 It was foggy, so it was hard to make out the figures of people walking.
彼らは、寒い季節の到来を感じ分けることが出来る。 They can sense the approach of cold weather.
赤道は地球を二つの半球に分ける。 The equator divides the globe into two hemispheres.
- 開ける☆【あける】空ける☆・明ける☆ Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to open (a door, etc.); to unwrap (e.g. parcel, package); to unlock [開ける]
- to open (for business, etc.) [開ける]
- to empty; to remove; to make space; to make room - esp. 空ける
- to move out; to clear out - esp. 空ける
- to be away from (e.g. one's house); to leave (temporarily) - esp. 空ける
ichidan verb / intransitive verb:
- to dawn; to grow light - esp. 明ける
- to end (of a period, season) - esp. 明ける
- to begin (of the New Year) - esp. 明ける
- to leave (one's schedule) open; to make time (for) - esp. 明ける
- to make (a hole); to open up (a hole)
3人の少年達はその建物の扉を開けました。 The three boys opened the doors of the building.
そうすればやがて運が開けるでしょう。 And soon your luck will turn for the better.
- 託す☆【たくす】托す Inflection
godan ~す verb / ~す verb (precursor to modern する) / transitive:
- to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to place under someone's care ➜ 託する
- to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to leave (a message) with someone
- to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
- to use as a pretext
彼は弁護士にその書類を託すことにした。 He decided to trust the lawyer with the document.
- 託する【たくする】托する Inflection
~する verb (spec.) / transitive:
- to entrust (someone) with; to leave (a matter) with someone; to place under someone's care ➜ 託す
- to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.); to send (through someone); to leave (a message) with someone
- to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.); to express in the form of (something)
- to use as a pretext
- 目は口ほどに物を言う【めはくちほどにものをいう】目は口程に物を言う
expression:
- one can say more with a look than with ten thousand words; the eyes cannot belie one's true thoughts; the eyes are the windows to the soul; eyes are as eloquent as the tongue - proverb ➜ 物を言う
- 打ち込む☆【うちこむ】打ちこむ・打込む・うち込む Inflection
godan ~む verb / transitive:
- to drive in (e.g. nail, stake); to hammer in
- to hit (a ball, etc.); to drive; to smash
- to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles); to lob (e.g. grenades) ➜ 撃ち込む
- to input (data); to enter
- to devote oneself to; to go heart and soul into; to throw oneself into; to go head over heels for
- to practice hitting (baseball, tennis, etc.) - Sports term
- to hit (an opponent in kendo, boxing, etc.); to get a blow in - Martial Arts term
- to invade one's opponent's territory (in the game of go); to place a stone in an opponent's formation
- to pour (concrete, etc.) into a form
ノートパソコンの電源を入れ、ブラウザを立ち上げて、もう覚えてしまったアドレスを打ち込む。 I switch on my laptop, start up the browser, and type in the address I've already learnt by heart.
基礎に杭を打ち込むのを忘れて、空中に楼閣を建てるとは、あなたも愚かな人だ。 It is foolish of you to build a castle in the air while forgetting to drive in pilings for its foundation.
- 引っ張る☆【ひっぱる】引っぱる・引張る Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to pull; to draw; to pull tight
- to string (lines); to run (cable); to stretch
- to pull towards oneself (e.g. someone's sleeve)
- to drag; to haul; to tow
- to lead (e.g. one's followers)
- to take someone somewhere (e.g. a suspect to the police)
- to tempt into joining; to strongly invite to join
- to delay; to prolong
- to lengthen the pronunciation (of a word)
- to quote; to cite; to reference
- to pull the ball - Baseball term
- to wear; to put on
- 歌い上げる☆【うたいあげる】歌いあげる Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to sing at the top of one's voice; to belt out a song
- to express one's feelings fully in a poem; to praise in poetry
- 召される【めされる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to do - honorific language
- to eat; to drink
- to put on; to wear
- to buy
- to ride
- to catch (a cold); to take (a bath); to tickle (one's fancy); to put on (years); to commit (seppuku)
suffix / ichidan verb:
- used to show respect - used after the -masu stem of a verb - archaism - honorific language
- 抱え込む☆【かかえこむ】かかえ込む・抱えこむ Inflection
godan ~む verb / transitive:
- to hold a thing in one's arms; to carry in one's arms; to embrace (e.g. a baby)
- to take upon oneself; to be saddled with
- 手折る【たおる】 Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to break by hand (e.g. a flower); to break off (a twig); to pluck (a flower, a bud)
- to make a young woman one's own thing
Kanji
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