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

expression:

• fortune and misfortune are intertwined; fortune and misfortune come by turns; good luck and bad luck alternate (like the strands of a rope); good and bad fortune are next-door neighbours

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

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to complain of itching; to be bothered by an itch (or rash, etc.); to feel itchy; to have an itch (or rash, etc.); to itch

noun:

• compulsory winding-up; winding-up by a court; compulsory liquidation; involuntary dissolution

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

adverb:

• aimlessly; by chance; accidentally; casually; suddenly; unexpectedly - onomatopoeia ➜ ふらり

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】

adverb:

• gradually; by degrees; little by little; step by step

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

expression / noun:

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

adjectival noun / noun:

• an order of magnitude higher; off by a digit; in a different league; unbelievable; incomparable; unimaginable

expression / adverb:

• any; whatever one likes; by all means; anything; everything ➜ 何でも

adverb / ~の noun / noun:

• from season to season; season by season; of each season; in each season - four character idiom

noun:

• knife pleat; one-way pleat; unidirectional pleat; accordion pleats ➜ 車襞【くるまひだ】

expression / adverb:

• any; whatever one likes; by all means; anything; everything ➜ 何でも

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to weaken (of willpower, solidarity, etc.); to lose one's edge; to become less tense; to become lax (of discipline, rules, etc.)