auxiliary verb:

• indicates respect for the one performing an action and politeness to the listener - after a monosyllable imperfective form verb - archaism - female language - polite language

noun:

• thick toast with honey (and often with fruit, icecream, etc.) - From English "honey toast"

expression / adverb:

• at the very beginning; first of all; before anything else; first and foremost

noun:

• hanakkori (Brassica napus cv. Hanakkori); hybrid of choy sum and broccoli invented in Yamaguchi prefecture

noun:

• crawling on all fours; getting on one's hands and knees; falling flat ➜ 四つん這い【よつんばい】

noun / expression:

• another world; enchanted land; joy from drinking and forgetting about the workaday world

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to throw at; to throw something at a person; to throw a person down

noun:

• millions and millions

noun:

• again and again - four character idiom

~の noun / ~と adverb:

• higher and higher

noun:

• presentiment; premonition; hunch

~する noun:

• to have a premonition; to have a hunch - usu. 予感がする

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to dwell; to live; to remain
• to stay at; to take shelter at; to stop at; to lodge at
• to be pregnant
• to be part of a constellation
• to be a parasite (bugs, plants, etc.)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to recover a cost; to recover an expense; to get a return on one's investment; to get one's money's worth

godan ~る verb / expression:

• to create a debt in one's favor (e.g. by doing someone a favor); to create an obligation in one's favor

noun:

• fall; decline; lowering; hanging down; drooping; slanting (downward) Antonym: 上がり
• string apron; ornamental cords hanging from the front of a sumo wrestler's belt - Sumo term
• food offering to the gods; leftovers; hand-me-downs - usu. as お下がり ➜ お下がり
• leaving (one's master's place for home)

suffix noun / noun:

• a little after ...

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to scatter; to cause a shower of
• to disperse; to distribute; to spread
• to resolve (a symptom, condition, etc.); to relieve; to get rid of; to cure
• to distract; to divert - as 気を散らす, etc. ➜ 気を散らす

suffix / godan ~す verb:

• to do ... wildly (i.e. disorderly or frequently); to do ... all over the place - after the -masu stem of a verb

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to emboss
• to print out; to print
• to work out (e.g. policy); to hammer out; to come out with; to set forth
• to strike (a drum indicating the end of a performance)
• to begin striking; to start beating

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to put back; to return; to give back; to restore (to a previous state, e.g. defrosting, reconstituting, reconciling); to turn back (e.g. clock hand)
• to vomit; to throw up
• to recover (of a market price)

noun:

• center; centre; middle; heart
• Chūbu region (incl. Aichi, Nagano, Shizuoka, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Fukui, Yamanashi and Gifu prefectures) - abbreviation ➜ 中部地方

noun:

• gyoza; pot sticker; crescent-shaped pan-fried dumplings stuffed with minced pork and vegetables - Food term - From Chinese "jiǎozi"

~の noun / noun:

• best; extra-fine; superfine; unequalled

adverbial noun:

• exceptionally; extraordinarily; by far

noun:

• jumping and slashing (e.g. at an enemy) - orig. meaning

noun:

• dashi (Japanese soup stock made from fish and kelp)
• pretext; excuse; pretense (pretence); dupe; front man ［出し］

adjectival noun / adverb / noun:

• crispy; crunchy - onomatopoeia
• tearing; ripping; cracking - onomatopoeia

adjectival noun / noun:

• spirited; energetic; vigorous - onomatopoeia
• brand-new and high quality (clothing); well-starched; crisp (bill) - onomatopoeia

noun / ~する noun:

• going through thick and thin to attain one's objective; enduring unspeakable hardships for the sake of vengeance - four character idiom

adverb:

• in general; generally; mostly; roughly; largely; mainly; on the whole; by and large

noun:

• gist; point; main idea