expression / godan ~く verb:

• to float in the air
• to be unfinished; to be unsettled; to be undecided

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to often be the case; to occur frequently; to be common; to be popular

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be crazy about; to be infatuated with; to be obsessively devoted to

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to drop into; to slip into; to let fall into; to slide (something) down

expression / godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to be hard to deal with; to be sinister-looking; to be idiosyncratic

expression / ichidan verb:

• to get to the heart (of the matter); to come to the main point

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to become entangled; to become complicated; to get mixed up; to screw up; to get caught up in

noun:

• here (place physically close to the speaker, place pointed by the speaker while explaining); this place ➜ 何処・其処・彼処
• these last (followed by a duration noun and a past sentence: time period before the present time of the speaker) ➜ 今迄
• these next ... (followed by a duration noun and a non past sentence: time period after the present time of the speaker); the next ... ➜ 此れから

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hit (e.g. one's head); to strike; to crash into
• to throw (e.g. a ball, a question, a demand)
• to express; to vent (e.g. one's anger)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to tower above the rest; to be by far the best; to be prominent; to be outstanding; to be a cut above

expression / ichidan verb:

• to ask for instructions; to ask for someone's opinion; to inquire of
• to invoke an oracle; to consult an oracle

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to drop; to lose; to let fall; to shed (light); to cast (one's gaze); to pour in (liquid); to leave behind
• to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose; to spend money at a certain place; to omit; to leave out; to secretly let escape
• to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to fail (a course); to defeat (in an election)
• to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice); to lessen (e.g. production or body weight); to worsen (quality); to reduce (e.g. rank or popularity); to speak badly of; to make light of; to fall into straitened circumstances
• to fall into (e.g. a dilemma or sin); to make one's own; to have one's bid accepted; to force surrender; to take (e.g. an enemy camp or castle); to forcefully convince; to press for a confession; to deal with
• to download; to copy from a computer to another medium - IT term
• to make someone swoon (judo) - Martial Arts term
• to finish a story (e.g. with the punch line)
• to finish (a period, e.g. of fasting)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to starve; to be famished; to be hungry
• to be starved of (e.g. love); to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge); to be hungry for

expression:

• too much pleasure ruins a man (esp. in reference to spending too much time with geisha and prostitutes); playing the dandy ruins a man - proverb

noun:

• criminal, administrative and civil codes (forming the basis of ancient East Asian law; orig. Chinese); legal codes of the Nara and Heian eras based on Chinese models ➜ 律・令【りょう】

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to put on (or wear) lower-body clothing (i.e. pants, skirt, etc.); to put on (or wear) footwear - usu 履く or 穿く
• to affix a sword to one's hip - usu. 佩く or 帯く
• to affix a bowstring to a bow

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to put on a moderate amount of lean or firm weight; to gain healthy weight (e.g. from muscle); to become overweight as opposed to obese

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• stormy and full of drama; many drastic events in the course of events; full of ups and downs; with many vicissitudes - four character idiom

noun:

• (former) Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry); MITI

noun:

• one's own flesh and blood; blood relative; kinsman
• flesh and bone; (one's) body

noun:

• (former) Ministry of International Trade and Industry (now Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry); MITI ➜ 経済産業省【けいざいさんぎょうしょう】

noun:

• metallic foil cut into strips or other shapes to form decorative motifs
• cutting a thin sheet of metal into shapes and affixing it with lacquer forming natural features (e.g. clouds)

noun:

• black ships (i.e. Western ships, often painted with tar, that came to Japan in the 16th century)
• product, person, etc. arriving from the West and disturbing the Japanese market, etc.

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to be under impression that; to be convinced that; to imagine that; to set one's heart on; to be bent on

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to keep one's temper; to maintain one's composure; to remain calm; to keep presence of mind; to preserve one's equilibrium