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- 思う★【おもう】想う・念う・憶う・懐う・惟う Inflection
godan ~う verb / transitive:
- to think; to consider; to believe - 想う has connotations of heart-felt
- to think (of doing); to plan (to do)
- to judge; to assess; to regard
- to imagine; to suppose; to dream
- to expect; to look forward to
- to feel; to be (in a state of mind); to desire; to want
- to recall; to remember
あすは天気だと思う。 I hope it'll be fine tomorrow.
みんなもそうなのかな、と思うことくらいしかできない。 I can only wonder if this is the same for everyone else.
兄弟がいるとどんなだろうといつも思う。 I've always wondered what it'd be like to have siblings.
- かぶせる☆《被せる》 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to cover (with something); to put on (e.g. on someone else's head); to plate something (with a metal); to pour or dash a liquid (on something); to charge (a person with a guilt)
- 校【こう】
suffix:
- school
noun / counter:
- proof (of a book, document, etc.); counter for proofs
その学校は、中・高一貫校だということを頭の片隅にでも入れておいて下さい。 Bear in mind that that school is an integrated junior high and high school.
- 沿う☆【そう】 Inflection
godan ~う verb / intransitive verb:
- to run along; to run beside; to stick to (a line)
- to follow (a policy, plan, etc.); to act in accordance with; to align with ➜ 添う
- 絡む☆【からむ】搦む Inflection
godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:
- to entangle; to entwine
- to pick a quarrel; to find fault
- to be involved with; to be influenced by; to develop a connection with
- ことにする☆《事にする》 Inflection
expression / ~する verb (irregular):
- to decide to
- to pretend that - after the past tense form of a verb
- to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to - as 〜ことにしている
- 通る☆【とおる】徹る・透る Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to go by; to go past; to go along; to travel along; to pass through; to use (a road); to take (a route); to go via; to go by way of
- to run (between); to operate (between); to connect - of public transport
- to go indoors; to go into a room; to be admitted; to be shown in; to be ushered in; to come in
- to penetrate; to pierce; to skewer; to go through; to come through
- to permeate; to soak into; to spread throughout
- to carry (e.g. of a voice); to reach far
- to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen); to be relayed; to be conveyed
- to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.); to be approved; to be accepted
- to go by (a name); to be known as; to be accepted as; to have a reputation for
- to be coherent; to be logical; to be reasonable; to be comprehensible; to be understandable; to make sense
- to get across (e.g. of one's point); to be understood
- to be straight (e.g. wood grain)
- to be well-informed; to be wise - archaism
suffix / godan ~る verb:
- to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly - after the -masu stem of a verb
容易に試験に通ると思う。 I expect her to pass the examination easily.
法案は間違いなく通るよ。 This bill is safe to pass.
富んでいるものが神の国に入るよりは、らくだが針の穴を通る方がもっと易しい。 It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
- 期する【きする・ごする】 Inflection
~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:
- 見直す★【みなおす】見なおす Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to look at again
- to re-examine (policy, estimate, plan, etc.); to review
- to get a better opinion of; to see in a more positive light
godan ~す verb / intransitive verb:
- to improve; to recover (market, illness, etc.)
将来、このような決定がどういう形で実行されるかを見直すことが必要になるかもしれない。 In the future we may need to take another look at the way decisions such as this are actually implemented.
- 垂れ下げる【たれさげる】 Inflection
ichidan verb / transitive:
- to hang (a curtain); to droop (a tail); to lower (a blind)
- 機嫌を取る【きげんをとる】機嫌をとる Inflection
expression / godan ~る verb:
- to curry favour; to butter up; to fawn over; to humour someone (humor); to put in a good mood (e.g. a baby)
こびへつらうウェイターは最上のテーブルをあてがわれる。なぜなら、そうしたウェイターは、いつもマネージャーや上役のきげんをとるから。 The obsequious waiter is usually assigned the best table because he always curries favor with his manager and superiors.
- つなぐ☆《繋ぐ》 Inflection
godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:
- to connect; to link together
- to tie; to fasten; to restrain
- to maintain; to preserve; to keep
- to transfer (phone call); to put a person through
- to hedge; to buy or sell forward
彼女はホテルのフロント係の人にその番号につなぐように頼んだ。 She has asked the person at the front desk to connect her to that number.
- 跳ね返る☆【はねかえる】はね返る Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
- to rebound; to recoil; to spring back up; to bounce back
- to splash
- to have a repercussion; to have a reciprocal effect
- 授かる☆【さずかる】 Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
- to be awarded (e.g. a prize); to be given an award; to receive (e.g. a title)
- to be gifted or endowed (e.g. with a talent)
- to be blessed (e.g. with a child)
- to be initiated (e.g. into a secret)
- 寺入り【てらいり】
noun:
- to enrol in a temple school; child enrolled in a temple school ➜ 寺子屋
- incarcerating a criminal in a temple as a form of punishment (popular during the latter Muromachi and Azuchi-Momoyama periods)
- to go to a temple and repent (following a disaster, etc.)
- 切り出す☆【きりだす】切りだす・切出す・伐り出す・伐りだす・鑽り出す Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
- to quarry; to cut (timber); to cut and carry off [切り出す・切りだす・切出す・伐り出す・伐りだす]
- to begin to talk; to break the ice; to broach [切り出す・切りだす・切出す]
- to start a fire (with flint, by rubbing sticks together, etc.) [切り出す・切りだす・切出す・鑽り出す]
- to select and extract (from a media file); to splice out [切り出す・切りだす・切出す・伐り出す・伐りだす]
挨拶抜きでいきなり用件を切り出す。 Skip the pleasantries and get down to business.
- 風穴を開ける【かざあなをあける】風穴をあける Inflection
expression / ichidan verb:
- to penetrate a body (e.g. with a spear or bullet)
- to breathe new life into; to provide a potential solution
- 続く☆【つづく】 Inflection
godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:
- to continue; to last; to go on
- to continue (without a break); to be unbroken
- to occur again and again
- to lead to; to connect to; to adjoin
- to come after; to follow; to succeed; to rank next to
- to hold out; to keep; to last
嵐はいつまで続くのだろうか。 How long will the storm last?
延々と続く車の列があった。 There was a continuous line of cars.
このところ飛行機事故が続く。 There have been a lot of airplane accidents recently.
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