noun:

• business; thing to be done; something that should be performed; information that should be conveyed

~よい adjective:

• easy to get into (e.g. of music, etc.); easily getting into (a certain mood, etc.)

expression / noun:

• true love; deep love; love for someone so deep that it can reach a crow perched on that person's roof

expression:

• he has not lived that lives not after death; the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it - proverb

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to easily defeat; to eat (one's opponent) alive - colloquialism ➜ 鴨
• to bilk; to swindle; to dupe - colloquialism

noun:

• event where young men and women paint each others' cheeks with black ink or soot during Little New Year in the San'in region ➜ 小正月

noun:

• omen; sign of luck
• origin; history; causation
• dependent arising; doctrine that everything has a cause and there is nothing that arises out of nothing - orig. meaning - abbreviation - Buddhism term ➜ 因縁生起

noun:

• fan in autumn (esp. one that is no longer used); "outdated item that has fallen into disuse" [figurative]; "woman who has lost a man's affection or interest" [figurative] ➜ 秋の扇

noun:

• there; that situation; that occasion
• the spot (i.e. "on the spot"); immediately; then and there

adjective:

• easy to get into (e.g. of music, etc.); easily getting into (a certain mood, etc.)

noun:

• net for caught fish
• net-like tassel of Buddhist prayer beads
• Vespula flaviceps (species of yellowjacket) ［すがり］ - Tōhoku dialect ➜ 黒雀蜂
• ant ［すがり］ - Kyūshū dialect ➜ 蟻

adverb / ~と adverb:

• easily ［すかり］ - onomatopoeia

noun:

• Lamarckian evolutionary theory in which individuals lose characteristics that are not used and develop characteristics that are often used ➜ ラマルク説

expression / temporal noun:

• just then; at that time; right then; at that moment
• appropriate moment

noun:

• man who is easily compelled into giving a woman gifts; man only used to receive gifts from - slang ➜ 貢ぐ

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be conceivable that; to be thinkable that

expression:

• cannot help feeling that; cannot help thinking that

expression:

• if that's the case; that being the case ➜ だと

adverb / noun:

• immediately; at once; right away; directly
• soon; before long; shortly
• easily; readily; without difficulty
• right (near); nearby; just (handy)

adjectival noun:

• honest; upright; frank; straightforward

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to speak as though something were actually the case; to smooth over; to give the impression that; to make it sound that

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to try to ...; to be about to do ... - after the volitional form of verb
• to decide to ... - after the dictionary form of verb
• to take as; to treat as; to regard as
• to use for
• to suppose that (such) is the case; to assume
• to decide that; to think that
• to make into; to change into
• to feel (e.g. after sound symbolism or psychological experience word); to look; to feel like
• to intend; to have the intention - with を目的

adverbial noun / temporal noun:

• not less than; ... and more; ... and upwards ➜ 余
• beyond ... (e.g. one's means); further (e.g. nothing further to say); more than ... (e.g. cannot pay more than that)
• above-mentioned; foregoing
• since ...; seeing that ...
• this is all; that is the end; the end

noun / ~の noun:

• flip; luck-pusher; frivolous person; person who readily chimes in with others; person who gets carried away easily

noun:

• system of guilt by association (especially that of Japanese election law, which stipulates that an elected official may lose his position if someone in his campaign commits a crime)

noun:

• cicadas that sing when autumn comes ➜ 秋蝉
• cicadas that sing even in autumn

expression:

• until then; till then; up to that time
• to that extent
• the end of it; all there is to it