godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to remove; to take off; to detach; to unfasten; to undo
• to drop (e.g. from a team); to remove (from a position); to exclude; to expel
• to leave (e.g. one's seat); to go away from; to step out; to slip away
• to dodge (a question, blow, etc.); to evade; to sidestep; to avoid (e.g. peak season)
• to miss (a target, chance, punch, etc.) Antonym: 当たる

expression / adjective:

• easy to get on with; not needing reserve or formality; personable; affable; approachable ➜ 気の置けない

noun / ~する noun:

• service; ministry; attendance; church work
• offering goods at a reduced price; providing a service for free

noun / ~する noun:

• girl hunt; trying to pick up a girl; looking for a girlfriend ➜ ボーイハント

expression / adjective:

• having a loose tongue; being talkative; speaking without thinking; being unable to keep a secret Antonym: 口が堅い ➜ 口の軽い

expression:

• once a fool, always a fool; stupidity won't be cured without death [literal] - proverb

expression:

• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

expression:

• Very truly yours (a complimentary close used in a letter written in an old epistolary style) - four character idiom

noun:

• changing one's attitude or conduct and making a new start; turning over a new leaf

noun:

• soy flour made from parched green soybeans ➜ きな粉

noun:

• soft-boiled egg marinated in soy and mirin - abbreviation ➜ 味付け玉子【あじつけたまご】

noun:

• (Edo-period) roadside teahouse where one would go to relax (in comparison with a restaurant style teahouse and teahouse offering sexual services); tea stall ➜ 色茶屋・料理茶屋

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have luck on one's side; to get lucky ➜ 芽が出る【めがでる】
• to have one's eyes bulge out of one's head (with surprise) ➜ 目の玉が飛び出る

noun:

• Argument for Leaving Asia; editorial written in 1885 by Fukuzawa Yukichi arguing that Japan should align itself with the West rather than China and Korea; Datsu-A Ron

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to get dark; to grow dark
• to end (of a day, year, season, etc.); to come to an end; to close
• to be sunk in (e.g. despair); to be lost in (e.g. thought); to be overcome with

noun / ~する noun:

• condensation (of ideas, emotions, etc.)
• condensation (of a vapour or gas) - Physics term

noun / ~の noun:

• end; close; conclusion

noun:

• end of a game of go, shogi, etc.

noun:

• strength and weakness; (degree of) strength
• stress (of a sound); loudness

noun:

• unlawful detention (of shipping); unlawful occupation (of a house or land)

noun:

• standard length of material used in a kimono; roll of material

noun:

• former site (of something); site (e.g. of a demolished building)

noun:

• wing length (esp. of a bird); wingspan (esp. of an aircraft)

expression:

• if there is a chance; if possible; if circumstances permit; if things go well; if luck is on my side

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to come down - esp. 下りる
• to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to disembark; to dismount - esp. 降りる
• to step down; to retire; to give up; to quit
• to be granted; to be issued; to be given - esp. 下りる
• to form (of frost, dew, mist, etc.) - esp. 降りる
• to be passed (from the body; e.g. of a roundworm) - esp. 下りる ➜ 下り物

noun:

• aphid; plant louse
• cockroach - Kansai dialect ➜ ゴキブリ
• Japanese house bat (Pipistrellus abramus) - obscure term ➜ 油蝙蝠
• hanger-on; parasite
• visitor to a red-light district who's only there to look - archaism