godan ~す verb:

• to ride (a horse) back; to drive (a car) back

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to play a leading role; to play a central part

noun:

• test for a position in a company; company entrance test

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to trim a tree; to prune a tree's branches - obscure term

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to bust down a door; to break a door open

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to have a controlling presence; to have a certain aura

noun:

• trial decision; decision by a court; judgment from a trial

expression:

• where there is a will, there is a way - proverb

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to have a perverse character; to have a twisted personality

expression / ~の noun:

• (not even) a little; (not even) a tiny bit ➜ ほんのわずか

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to close down a business; to shut a business

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to stifle a laugh; to hold back a laugh

~の noun:

• certain; some kind of; some sort of; of sorts

noun:

• area between the regular outfield wall and a lower home-run fence set up at a shorter distance from home plate - Baseball term - From English "lucky zone"

noun:

• small dried sardines or anchovies (gomame) cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and sugar ➜ 古女【ごまめ】
• tilling a rice field; person who tills a paddy field

noun:

• program picture (i.e. film cheaply and quickly produced as a lesser attraction in a double bill); programme picture; B-movie

noun:

• sandy beach; sandbar that projects into the ocean, particularly in a wavy form
• designs and objects with a wavy pattern
• sweet mochi cake ➜ 素甘【すあま】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to speak to; to give a (something) talk to; to speak words of (something)

noun / suffix noun:

• just before; on the verge of; on the brink of
• just in front of; just ahead of

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to pass the peak (of something); to get through the most difficult part; to be over the worst (e.g. an illness) - idiom
• to cross a pass - orig. meaning

expression / ichidan verb:

• to pass the peak (of something); to get through the most difficult part; to be over the worst (e.g. an illness) - idiom ➜ 峠を越す
• to cross a pass - orig. meaning

noun:

• obtaining the respective numbers of cranes and tortoises from the total of their heads and legs; calculating the values of two unknown quantities from their unit total and the total of one of their attributes

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to run; to hurry (when going somewhere)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to drive (a car) quickly; to ride fast (on a horse)
• to win (fame) ➜ 名をはせる

noun:

• comparing and adjusting; reconciling; knocking into shape; bouncing of ideas, opinions, etc. off each other to obtain a fine-tuned integrated whole
• lapping; precision surface finishing; mating by rubbing together - Engineering term
• margination - usually written using kana alone - Medicine term

noun:

• inspector (third highest of the four administrative ranks of the ritsuryo system) - archaism ➜ 判官【はんがん】
• (noh) old man ➜ 翁【おきな】
• white ash (of charcoal)