expression:

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

expression:

• one should be satisfied without desiring more wealth and rank than necessary; waking, half a tatami mat; sleeping, a single tatami mat [literal]

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to surpass the rest (e.g. of a large group); to stand out from the crowd; to be the best by far ➜ 抜群

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to fill (with); to be filled with
• to express (an emotion); to project (sadness, joy, etc.); to wear (e.g. a smile)

expression:

• what the hell; what the fuck; what are you going on about; you've got to be kidding - Kansai dialect

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to concur; to be the same (thought, opinion, etc.); to have the same way of doing

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to speak distinctly; to speak clearly
• to put it bluntly; to get to the point; to be frank

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to hurt one's reputation; to be ashamed of oneself; to lose one's honour

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to get a salary (from); to receive a stipend (from); to be on the payroll (of)

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to smoke (e.g. fire); to billow smoke; to smoulder; to smolder
• to be hazy; to look dim

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to shirk one's duties; to be idle; to play truant
• to come loose; to come undone; to get untied

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be in sight (e.g. a resolution); to have a clear idea; to have bright prospects

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / expression:

• to act on one's emotions; to be carried away by one's feelings; to get emotional Antonym: 冷静になる

expression:

• always dot the i's and cross the t's; don't neglect the slightest detail; be punctilious - proverb

expression:

• once over the borders one may do anything; what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas; shame (committed while) on a journey can be scratched away [literal] - proverb

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】

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to dominate; to prevail; to be superior to; to get ahead of; to get the upper hand

adjective:

• nonexistent; not being (there) ➜ 亡い
• unpossessed; unowned; not had
• unique ➜ またとない
• not; impossible; won't happen - as ...ことがない, etc.; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility

auxiliary adjective:

• not ... - after the ren'youkei form of an adjective ➜ ない
• to not be...; to have not ... - after the -te form of a verb

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to burst open; to split open; to pop
• to be bursting with (e.g. youth, laughter, flavor)
• to bounce; to bound

noun:

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

noun:

• (Platonic) ideal (of how things ought to be, e.g. human rights); foundational principle; idea; conception (e.g. of the university); doctrine; ideology

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to hold fast to one's ways; to be overly conservative; to not get with the times; to guard the tree stub [literal] - from a fable appearing in the Han Feizi - idiom

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to come off; to be worn off
• to fade; to discolor; to discolour

godan ~る verb:

• to neighbor (neighbour); to be next to (esp. to live next door to) ➜ 隣

~する verb (spec.) / suffix:

• to change into; to convert into; to transform; to be reduced; to influence; to improve (someone)