noun:

• as is; in (its) present state; in (its) present condition

noun:

• New Year's ceremony in which a hoe is used to break ground in a field lying in a lucky direction ➜ 鍬入れ

noun:

• the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha) - Buddhism term

noun:

• long homeroom; occasional or periodic extra long registration class or assembly in a school (e.g. for activities not related to class work) ➜ ホームルーム

noun:

• solitary non-employed person; non-employed person aged 20-59, not married or engaged in study who has no social interactions with anybody outside their family - From English

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to fix upon (one-sidedly); to (ignore somebody's position and) arbitrarily decide something is the case
• to scold; to take (a person) to task

~の noun / noun:

• not covered (e.g. of a sports opponent); unobserved; under the radar - From English "no mark"
• unmarked (e.g. of a product); unlabelled

noun:

• Japanese reading of a kanji (sometimes esp. in ref. to readings that do not correspond to the orig. Chinese meaning of the kanji)

expression:

• women are not as clever as they think; women should know their place; even a clever woman will fail at selling a cow [literal] - proverb

interjection:

• yes; that is correct - polite language
• understood; I see; OK; okay
• present; here - as a response to a roll call
• pardon?; what's that?; come again? - with rising intonation - colloquialism
• now; here; here you go - used when calling for someone's attention or when handing something to someone
• giddy-up; giddap

expression:

• don't lend money to a man who doesn't have an erection in the morning (because he's not healthy and might die before he can repay) - archaism - proverb

noun:

• clicking the shutter of a camera without taking a picture (because no film is loaded, or in order to advance the film)

expression:

• of soup and love, the first is the best; one's first spouse tends to be better than any subsequent spouse - proverb

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to sleep (not necessarily lying down) ➜ 寝る
• to die
• to lie idle (e.g. of resources); to be dormant; to be unused ［ねむる］
• to close one's eyes - archaism

expression / adjective:

• non-genetically modified; not genetically modified; non-GM; non-GMO Antonym: 遺伝子組み換え

noun:

• true bristletail (any insect of order Thysanura, esp. of family Lepismatidae)
• Oriental silverfish (Ctenolepisma villosa) ➜ 大和紙魚
• someone who is unable to apply what they have read - derogatory term

noun:

• hanger-on; dependent
• someone who is received coldly
• third, fourth, fifth, etc. sons (during the Edo period when only the oldest male could inherit an estate) - familiar language

expression / ichidan verb:

• to hoist one's sail when the wind is fair; to get one's time to shine - idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• not giving up; keeping at it until one succeeds; falling seven times, getting up eight times [literal] - idiom

noun:

• the vicissitudes of life; ups and downs in life - idiom

noun:

• place that is cool in the summer; place one goes to escape the heat of summer; summer retreat ➜ 避暑

noun:

• touching a wrong card
• making a mistress of a servant; mistress (who is one's servant)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to be commonly referred to as; as people say; as the saying is; they say ➜ 所謂【いわゆる】

ichidan verb:

• to carry in one's own hands; to carry in a manner that is obvious to others - colloquialism ➜ 提げる【さげる】

noun:

• life-saving sword (a killing sword may be a sword of life depending on how it is used)

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with