expression / godan ~る verb:

• to lose a battle to win the war; to incur damage so as to inflict greater damage on a foe; to allow one's flesh to be cut in order to sever another's bone [literal] - idiom

interjection:

• stone the crows; blow me down; oops; uh oh; expression of annoyed surprise or shock

noun / ~の noun:

• government and people; government and private sector; public and private sector

adverb:

• for millennia and millennia; for years and years; forever and ever - archaism

noun / prefix / suffix:

• medium; average; middle

noun:

• moderation
• middle school - abbreviation ➜ 中一・中学校
• China - abbreviation ➜ 中国
• volume two (of three) - abbreviation ➜ 中巻

suffix noun:

• during (a certain time when one did or is doing something); under (construction, etc.); while ➜ 話し中
• in; out of (e.g. three out of ten people) ➜ 中【じゅう】

noun / ~する noun:

• promise; agreement; arrangement; one's word; contract; pact; appointment; engagement; date - honorific language - humble language ➜ 約束

noun / ~の noun:

• something expected or predictable (e.g. running gag); typical or clichéd development (in a story); something considered obligatory or guaranteed (in a certain situation)

adverb / ~と adverb:

• snugly (into hole, container, etc.); tightly (fitting, covering); firmly - onomatopoeia ➜ すぽっと

adverb:

• (with a) pop (i.e. sound of a cork, etc. being pulled out of a hole in one movement); with a plop; (fall) straight - onomatopoeia ➜ すぽっと

noun:

• sumo management stock; one of the 105 titled trusteeships in the Japan Sumo Association; tradable share that entitles the holder to take part in the management of sumo - Sumo term

noun:

• contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom

noun:

• contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom

noun:

• contest decided by a single round (bout); contest decided by a single roll of dice; one-shot game (contest); make-or-break game - four character idiom

~の noun / adjectival noun / noun:

• ignorant and illiterate; uneducated and illiterate; uneducated and illiterate person - sensitive - four character idiom

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to talk down; to corner someone in an argument

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to tread down so as to harden (soil, snow, etc.)

adverb / ~と adverb / ~する noun:

• throwing down multiple objects in succession - onomatopoeia ➜ ドサ
• at once in great numbers

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to get back to normal; to get back into one's stride; to get back into the swing of it

godan ~む verb / intransitive verb:

• to cut deep into
• to cut one's way into (an enemy position); to rush on; to raid; to attack
• to press someone hard (e.g. with questions); to get to the heart of (a matter)

noun:

• attitude that with the state as one's boss, normal fiscal accountability can be dispensed with; dependence on the central government; attitude of those who assume their jobs are safe because they are government employees

noun:

• water and sky
• Varuna; Vedic god of water and sky (adopted into Buddhism as god of water and protector of the west)

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

noun:

• oyakodon; chicken and egg on rice
• sexual relationship with both a mother and daughter - vulgar - slang

noun:

• paper and sacred sakaki branches cut and mixed with rice to scatter before the gods

noun:

• Theaceae; family of flowering plants comprising the camellias and other shrubs and trees

noun:

• Japanese-Spanish (gen. for translations and dictionaries); Japan-Spain (e.g. intercountry trade and relations)

noun:

• style of gagaku based on Tang-era Chinese music and ancient Indian song and dance - archaism ➜ 唐楽