ichidan verb / transitive:

• to occupy; to hold
• to account for; to make up; to take up

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to dig; to excavate; to hollow
• to delve into
• to dig up (e.g. vegetables)
• (for two men) to have anal sex - slang - vulgar

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to deduct; to take away; to dock
• to make allowances for something; to bear something in mind

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to ebb and flow

noun:

• green card (United States Permanent Resident Card)
• green card (international insurance certificate for United Kingdom motorists)

noun:

• simple type of clothing consisting of a large piece of cloth with a hole in the middle for the head

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to be pressed for time; to be pressed by urgent business; to have one's pants on fire

~する noun:

• to be a match for; to rival; to equal; to compare with; to be equivalent to

noun / ~の noun / ~する noun:

• disguising oneself as a man; dressing as a man (for a woman); male clothing ➜ 女装【じょそう】

noun:

• pillow money; pillow tip; tip left by the pillow for the room maid

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to receive too many blessings; to be excessively favoured; to be too good for

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to gather momentum; to gather strength; (for a trend) to reach a peak

noun / ~する noun:

• male coming of age ceremony
• for a woman to shave her eyebrows, dye her teeth and wear her hair in the marumage style after marrying (Edo period)

expression / noun:

• parents' partiality for their children; parents overvaluing their children

noun:

• canopy (esp. the cloth or canvas used for it); awning; top (of a convertible); hood
• helmet cape; cloth covering one's back to protect against arrows during battle

expression:

• along comes a sucker just begging to be parted from his money - slang - abbreviation ➜ 鴨がねぎを背負って来る
• double stroke of good luck; Perfect timing!; How convenient (for you to show up)!

noun:

• historical term for non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Emishi
• Yezo (northern part of Meiji-era Japan, esp. Hokkaido, but also Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands) ［えぞ］ ➜ 蝦夷地

noun:

• overwhelming majority (number of parliamentary seats required in order for the ruling coalition to chair all standing committees and pass bills without the support of other parties)

auxiliary verb / ichidan verb:

• indicates passive voice (incl. the "suffering passive") - れる for 五段 verbs, られる for 一段 verbs. After the -nai stem of a verb ➜ 迷惑の受身【めいわくのうけみ】
• indicates the potential form - no imperative form
• indicates spontaneous occurrence - no imperative form
• used as an honorific for others' actions - no imperative form - honorific language

expression / noun:

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

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to make publicly known; to profess to be; to pretend to be; to pass off for; to pose as

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

noun:

• figure eight; figure of eight
• shape of "hachi", the kanji for eight ［八の字］

expression:

• You'll regret this!; I'll get you for this; Just you wait - idiom

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to catch up (with); to draw level; to pull even; to reach ➜ 追いつく
• to be compensated; to make up for one's losses ➜ 追いつく

noun:

• lesson learned from someone's else mistake; object lesson; food for thought; stones from other mountains (can be used to polish one's own gems) [literal] - idiom ➜ 他山の石以て玉を攻むべし