ichidan verb / transitive:

• to explain away; to talk one's way out of; to excuse oneself; to evade

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to irritate; to grate on one's nerves; to aggravate; to be galling; to be invidious

expression / ichidan verb:

• to fire oneself up; to give it one's all; to get psyched; to motivate oneself
• to fire someone up (with scolding, corporal punishment, etc.); to rouse

expression:

• order's up; one order ready; coming up; your order is ready
• problem solved; one down; all done

noun / ~する noun:

• crying hard; crying one's eyes out; loud crying; wailing; profuse weeping

noun:

• cramped home; one's humble abode; hovel; pigsty; cottage; squalid hut

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be able to reach; to be within one's reach; to be able to afford; to have the means to buy - idiom
• to be near (a certain age) - idiom

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• gasping for breath; at one's last gasp; breathing feebly; on the brink of death; more dead than alive - four character idiom

expression:

• without being able to help oneself; against one's will; compelling; pressing; irresistible ➜ 止むに止まれず・止むに止まれない

expression / ichidan verb:

• to think about; to send one's heart out to; to give more than a passing thought to; to think of something far away; to think nostalgically upon (esp. one's hometown) ➜ 思いを致す

expression:

• without being able to help oneself; against one's will; compelling; pressing; irresistible ➜ 止むに止まれず・止むに止まれぬ

adjectival noun:

• having a single meaning; allowing only one interpretation; unequivocal; unambiguous
• principal; primary; most important

expression:

• whether you like it or not; no matter what one may do; in any event; at all events

noun:

• individual play; one-man effort; non-cooperation; playing on one's own; selfish play

auxiliary:

• to give; to let one have; to do for one; to be given - contraction of くれろ - Kansai dialect ➜ 呉れる

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be forward; to stick one's nose into; to meddle; to be intrusive
• to jut out; to protude; to overhang

noun:

• pigtails; two plaits hanging about one's shoulders; two plaits hanging down one's back; queue

expression:

• head-on; to one's face; squarely; directly; flatly (e.g. refuse)

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to quit (a shady business); to wash one's hands of; to cut one's ties with; to turn over a new leaf; to go straight - idiom
• to wash one's feet

noun:

• starting afresh; going back to square one; abandoning (e.g. a plan); calling off ➜ ご破算
• clearing an abacus - orig. meaning ➜ ご破算

noun:

• imperfect (Buddhist) training; imperfection in one's (Buddhist) training; incomplete training; poor training - Buddhism term

pronoun:

• I; me - used by Buddhist monks - humble language

adverb:

• saying "Ah!"; making one say "Ah!"; surprisingly; astonishingly ➜ あっ・あっと驚く【あっとおどろく】

adjectival noun / adverbial noun / noun:

• very hard; with utmost effort; with all one's might; desperately; frantically; for dear life; all-out effort; sticking at living in and defending one place - four character idiom ➜ 一生懸命
• sticking at living in one place

expression / noun:

• dream within a dream; (beyond) one's wildest dreams; entirely unrealizable dream; pie in the sky

ichidan verb:

• to find fault with; to rain on one's parade; to nitpick; to quibble ➜ ケチを付ける