noun:

• same period of last year; the same month a year ago; year-ago month

expression / adjective:

• to gain nothing; to be of no benefit; to be no use; to be unprofitable

noun:

• blue return; blue-paper income-tax return; type of income tax return filing which allows for special income deductions ➜ 白色申告

expression / ichidan verb:

• to feel relieved; to feel happy after having been relieved of a responsibility; to be relieved from a duty

noun:

• dead end; cul-de-sac; blind alley; no through road (i.e. on signage)
• end; end of the road; end point; as far as one can go

expression / noun / ~する noun:

• focusing on only the good points or strong points; incorporating the benefits (while ignoring the drawbacks); picking the best of both (everything); cherry-picking (e.g. information) ➜ いいとこ取り【いいとこどり】

noun:

• Roche limit; Roche's limit (closest that a natural satellite can come to the center of a planet without disintegrating due to tidal forces)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to be evasive; to give an evasive answer
• to speak ambiguously; to prevaricate
• to cook up a specious story to get out of an uncomfortable situation
• to make do with

noun:

• Japanese morning glory (Ipomoea nil); picotee morning glory; ivy morning glory
• any funnel shaped object; bell (e.g. of a trumpet); funnel-shaped urinal

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to tear off; to peel off; to rip off; to strip off; to skin; to flay; to disrobe; to deprive of; to detach; to disconnect

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to enquire of someone about something (inquire); to question
• to interrogate; to grill (someone about a matter); to question in detail

expression:

• there it is; there it comes; got it; of course; it figures; I knew it; expression one says when what is expected comes

expression:

• there it is; there it comes; got it; of course; it figures; I knew it; expression one says when what is expected comes - colloquialism ➜ それ来た

expression / ichidan verb:

• to carry a bomb [literal]; to have a bomb about to go off
• to have an imminent problem; to be in danger of relapse

adjectival noun / noun:

• no good; not serving its purpose; useless; broken
• hopeless; wasted; in vain; purposeless
• cannot; must not; not allowed

noun:

• neutral point (in go); intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game

conjunction:

• cum (e.g. bedroom-cum-study); holding both roles (e.g. Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs); and; in addition; concurrently; at the same time

noun:

• private secretary
• flunky; someone who is always following around someone of high rank - derogatory term
• someone who carries a bag for someone; luggage carrier; carrying a bag

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be crowded (with); to be packed ➜ 建て込む
• to be piled up (of work); to be busy (with)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to spend all of one's free time; to spend one's time without constraint

noun:

• cabinetwork; joinery - usu. 指(し)物
• hair ornament; hairpin - often 挿(し)物
• colours; banner; small banner worn by soldiers during battle (for identification) from the Sengoku period to the end of the Edo period - archaism

noun:

• the thirteen sects of Sect Shinto (Fuso-kyo, Taisha-kyo, Jikko-kyo, Konko-kyo, Kurozumi-kyo, Misogi-kyo, Ontake-kyo, Shinri-kyo, Shinshu-kyo, Shinto Shusei-ha, Shinto Taikyo, Taisei-kyo, Tenri-kyo) ➜ 教派神道

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to give (esp. to someone of lower status); to bestow; to grant; to confer; to present; to award
• to provide; to afford; to offer; to supply
• to assign
• to cause
• to pass (a variable to a function) - IT term

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to become hard and fibrous; to go to seed; to have passed one's prime; to have lost the first bloom of one's youth

adjective:

• dark; gloomy; murky
• depressed; dispirited; down in the dumps; dark (mood)
• dark (in colour); dull
• ill-boding; dark (e.g. past); suspicious
• unlikely (to succeed); hopeless; unpromising
• unfamiliar (with); ignorant (of) - as 〜に暗い Antonym: 明るい

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• refreshingly; with a feeling of relief; pleasantly; (a weight) off one's shoulder - onomatopoeia ➜ さっぱり
• shapely; neatly; refinedly
• cleanly; without trouble
• clearly; plainly; distinctly ➜ はっきり
• completely; thoroughly ➜ すっかり
• not at all (with negative sentence); not even slightly ➜ さっぱり