expression / godan ~る verb:

• to like; to be pleased with; to be delighted with; to take a liking to; to suit one's fancy

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to stagnate; to be delayed; to be left undone
• to be overdue (of a payment); to fall into arrears; to be outstanding

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to start the debate; to get the ball rolling; to fire the first shot (fig. only); to start a conversation

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive / intransitive verb:

• to support (someone) financially; to finance; to supply (money); to give (in support)

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

• to present (money or gifts) to a monarch - archaism

adjectival noun:

• meaningful; suggestive; seeming to be with a history; seeming to be with circumstances that are hard to explain - archaism

expression:

• trivial; not amounting to much; not enough to cause a problem; not as much as expected

noun / ~する noun:

• planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation
• collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn
• series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs); sequence

noun:

• large, perforated, turnip-shaped arrowhead cover made of Japanese bigleaf magnolia or paulownia; harmless arrow affixed with such a cover (that whistles when shot and is used to drive off evil spirits) - abbr. of 響目

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to smell; to smell of; to have a smell ➜ 臭いがする【においがする】

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to taste; to taste of; to have a taste

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to sing (bird)
• to make sound (animal); to call; to cry; to chirp
• to make a meld call (e.g. pung, kong) ［鳴く］ - Mahjong term

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to go into; to come into; to penetrate; to get in; to step in (a house)
• to become complicated

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to be scorched into; to be seared into
• to make a strong impression; to be etched in (one's memory)

noun:

• not folding on a stitch but placing the fold (2mm) deeper past the stitch, folding the excess back to cover the stitch

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be shameless; to have a lot of nerve; to have nerves of steel; to have hair on one's heart [literal] - idiom

noun:

• branch of a sacred tree (esp. sakaki) with paper or cotton strips attached (used as an offering) - Shintō term
• sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica) ➜ 榊

noun:

• system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)

expression:

• a fox is not taken twice in the same snare; there are no birds in last year's nest; there aren't always loach under the willow tree [literal] - obscure term

noun:

• Suica (rechargeable prepaid IC card that can be used as a train pass in the greater Tokyo, Osaka and Sendai regions and also as electric money in some stores) ➜ パスモ

noun / ~する noun:

• first ride (in a new vehicle, in the new year, etc.)

noun:

• base-fare zone; starting fare; base fare

noun:

• the other side of a river
• the other side of the tracks; place where lower class people live - sensitive

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to straighten oneself; to straighten one's clothes and one's posture; to adopt a more serious attitude - idiom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to fade into dusk; to fade into twilight
• to decline; to wane; to abate
• to look melancholic (of a person) - colloquialism

noun:

• chancy trade (business) with a high turnover rate and uncertain profitability
• the entertainment, eating, and drinking business
• the night entertainment (nightlife) business

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to nail
• to knock; to bang (e.g. one's head); to strike (hard) ➜ 打付ける【ぶつける】
• to throw (e.g. a rock); to fling ➜ 打付ける【ぶつける】