godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to ask; to inquire; to hear; to be told - humble language
• to implore (a god for an oracle); to seek direction (from your superior)

godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:

• to visit - humble language
• to speak to (a large crowd at a theatre, etc.) - from 御機嫌を伺う

noun:

• state of a country (population, resources, etc.); condition of a country; strength of a country

expression:

• sleep brings up a child well; a well-slept child is a well-kept child - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to suddenly assume an antagonistic attitude; to suddenly become defiant; to turn aggressive (in one's manner)
• to moon; to point one's naked buttocks at someone; to give somebody the brown-eye

noun:

• staying awake on the eve of the 57th day of the sexagenary cycle (to prevent the three worms from reporting one's wrongdoings and shortening one's lifespan), while worshipping Sakra, the Blue-Faced Vajra, or Sarutahiko ➜ 三尸

expression:

• You must seize every golden opportunity; Strike while the iron is hot; When you find a rare good buy, seize upon it for a future sale at a much higher price - four character idiom

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to slacken; to loosen; to relax; to droop (e.g. loose or flabby skin); to sag (ceiling)
• to slack off (e.g. one's work, attention); to not put one's heart in

godan ~す verb:

• to fire a gun; to let off a gun; to loose off a shell

noun:

• the end of things (esp. used for one's last writings) - archaism
• one's dying hour (esp. used for the death of Confucius)

godan ~る verb:

• to slam into (e.g. a wall, a limit) (figuratively); to hit
• to face (e.g. trouble, a problem); to confront

noun:

• establishing something (e.g. a company or a religious order) by oneself; company or religious order founded in such a way - obscure term

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to take (a resource, e.g. time or money) ➜ 時間がかかる

godan ~る verb:

• to hang
• to come into view; to arrive ➜ お目にかかる
• to come under (a contract, a tax)
• to start (engines, motors)
• to attend; to deal with; to handle

godan ~る verb / auxiliary verb:

• to have started to; to be on the verge of

godan ~る verb:

• to overlap (e.g. information in a manual); to cover

godan ~る verb / auxiliary verb:

• to (come) at

godan ~る verb:

• to be fastened ➜ 鍵がかかる
• to be covered (e.g. with dust, a table-cloth, etc.)
• to be caught in ➜ 罠にかかる
• to get a call ➜ 電話が掛かる
• to depend on

expression / adjective:

• it can't be helped; it is inevitable; nothing can be done; there's no point (in doing something); there's no reason (to do something)

adverb / ~の noun:

• for a short while; for a brief period; soon; in a short while

expression:

• a few minutes; for a few minutes; for a number of minutes; for a period of a few minutes; for several minutes

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to stay bottled up inside oneself; to be introverted
• to have a melancholic appearance, atmosphere (of a person, object, place); to have a gloomy appearance

adverb:

• at a stroke; with a single swoop

noun / ~する noun:

• having a medical exam; seeing a doctor

noun / ~する noun:

• founding a temple (on a hill-top)

noun / ~する noun:

• lighting (a lamp); turning on a light ➜ 消灯

noun / ~する noun:

• observing a performance in a large group

noun / ~する noun:

• offering a full report to a superior

noun:

• plot (of a story)

noun / ~する noun:

• plotting (a graph)

noun:

• remnants of a party or a gang

noun / ~する noun:

• information; making a report (to a superior)