godan ~く verb:

• to have a (rough) idea (of what the situation is) - colloquialism ➜ 見当がつく

suffix:

• person

noun:

• free and unbiased; fair and just; ruling or judging what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong; calling spade a spade - four character idiom

noun:

• well-informed person; thinking person; intelligent person

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to bring a complaint to a person (who is responsible for the problem)

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手の考え休むに似たり

expression:

• It's hard to tell a poor thinker from a sleeping one; They to whom only bad ideas come might as well be asleep; Poor thinking is futile; Inadequate ideas are worse than none at all - proverb ➜ 下手な考え休むに似たり

adverb:

• what street? (esp. in Kyoto and Sapporo)
• what article? (in a law)
• how can?; cannot possibly; there is no way - the 条 in 何条 is an ateji - archaism

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to err and not change one's ways, this is what it is to err (from Analects of Confucius)

expression:

• what is it exactly?; what is it precisely

expression:

• playing while the cat is away; taking a break while the boss is out; doing what one wants when one is (finally) alone; relaxing while the demon is out [literal] - idiom ➜ 洗濯

expression:

• what is learned in the cradle is carried to the tomb - proverb

expression:

• to get a tiny share of the profits; to get a small share of what someone is enjoying

expression:

• what I want to say is ...; the fact of the matter is ...

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to raise; to raise up; to set up; to pick up
• to wake; to wake up; to waken; to awaken
• to cause; to bring about; to lead to; to trigger; to give rise to; to create; to generate (e.g. heat, electricity); to produce ➜ 熾す【おこす】
• to start; to begin; to launch; to establish; to found; to set up; to open ➜ 興す【おこす】
• to plough; to plow; to till
• to fall ill with
• to transcribe; to write down (what is spoken)
• to turn over (a card)

expression:

• what did you do?
• is anything the matter?; what seems to be the problem?; can I help you?

noun:

• party; set; gang; company; person

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to send (a thing); to dispatch; to despatch; to transmit
• to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person)
• to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury
• to spend (time); to live one's life
• to pass (down the line)
• to affix okurigana ➜ 送り仮名

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

expression:

• a matter of course; what is to be expected; par for the course

expression:

• a person's worth is assessed only when their coffin is sealed - idiom

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to put; to place
• to leave (behind)
• to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up
• to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire; to employ
• to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc); to bear (in mind etc)
• to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool
• to take in (boarders, etc.); to provide lodging in one's house
• to separate spatially or temporally

godan ~く verb / auxiliary verb:

• to do something in advance - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone
• to leave something in a certain state; to keep something in a certain state - after the -te form of a verb - usually written using kana alone

pronoun:

• such and such (when being vague, placeholder, etc.); this and that

interjection:

• What?; What is the matter?; What are the items?

expression / ichidan verb:

• to angrily reject; to snub; to give a person a good scolding; to give a person a rap on the knuckles

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to observe the reasons and types of faults a person makes is to come to know whether they are virtuous or not