noun:

• free use

~する noun:

• to use freely; to make free use of; to have good command (e.g. of a language)
• to drive someone on

suffix:

• style; manner
• after (period of time) again (e.g. meeting again after a year); for the first time in (period of time) ➜ 久しぶり【ひさしぶり】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be out of focus ➜ ずれる
• to be off the point (e.g. of a plan); to have not got the point

adverb:

• as a test; as an experiment; by way of experiment; by way of trial; tentatively

noun:

• kanji for common use; jōyō kanji; list of 2,136 kanji established in 2010, formerly a list of 1,945 established in 1981 ➜ 当用漢字

noun:

• skilled actor who is like a child offstage; good actor who knows but little of the ways of the world - four character idiom
• child kabuki actor - orig. meaning - archaism

expression:

• of soup and love, the first is the best; one's first spouse tends to be better than any subsequent spouse - proverb

adverb / ~と adverb:

• lightly (floating); buoyantly - onomatopoeia
• puffing (on a pipe, cigarette, etc.) - onomatopoeia
• tooting (a trumpet, horn, etc.); blowing (a flute, whistle) - onomatopoeia

expression:

• many a little makes a mickle; every little helps; even dust becomes a mountain if piled together [literal] - proverb

noun:

• book cover; outer wrapper for a book (put on by a bookseller before being handed to a customer) ➜ ブックカバー

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be made an example of; to be made a victim of; to be exposed to ridicule

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to start an act (of a play); to have curtains open; to have an (event, period of history, etc.) start ➜ 幕を閉じる

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to harm oneself in an attempt to harm someone else; to spit at the heavens and have one's spit land back on one's face [literal] - proverb ➜ 天に唾する

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be stormy or choppy (sea)
• to go through hard times; to be broke
• to be gloomy; to be glum

noun:

• free action; free activity; acting at one's own discretion; taking one's own course; free hand; independent action

noun:

• seat
• location (of a gathering, etc.); place
• position; post

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• reverse; opposite

adjectival noun / noun:

• converse (of a hypothesis, etc.)

prefix noun:

• inverse (function) - Mathematics term

noun / ~する noun:

• assumption (of office); taking up (a post); inauguration; installation

noun:

• foot (of a mountain or hill); bottom; base

noun / ~する noun:

• revision (of a rule, price, etc.); alteration; change ➜ 改訂

adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• natural; as a matter of course; justified; deserved; reasonable

noun / ~する noun:

• formulation (of a plan, policy, etc.); decision; settling on

noun / ~する noun:

• structural alteration (of a building); reconstruction; rebuilding; remodelling; remodeling

noun:

• end of a century (esp. 19th); fin-de-siècle

noun / ~する noun:

• breaking off a relationship; permanent breach of friendship; rupture