expression:

• I am writing to you; I am (taking the liberty of) getting in touch with you - template phrase used in business writing - polite language

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to read too much into things; to get wrong ideas by letting one's imagination run wild; to have a groundless suspicion

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to be awarded (e.g. a prize); to be given an award; to receive (e.g. a title)
• to be gifted or endowed (e.g. with a talent)
• to be blessed (e.g. with a child)
• to be initiated (e.g. into a secret)

godan ~う verb / transitive / intransitive verb:

• to sing

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem - esp. 歌う, 詠う

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to vacate; to surrender (e.g. a castle); to give up (e.g. a position); to hand over (e.g. power)

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to worry about (someone's welfare or comfort); to feel anxious about; to have apprehensions of

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to be equal in number, degree, etc. (of two things in opposition); to balance; to cancel out

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to revel in trouble and discord; to be bent on making trouble; to like starting fights

noun:

• weighing anchor; setting sail; outgoing ship ➜ 入り船

~する noun:

• to set sail; to put out to sea ［しゅっせん］

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to meet someone's requirements; to meet expectations; to go along with what somebody wants

ichidan verb:

• to think something over and over; to rack one's brains; to be at a loss

noun:

• offering to a deity or somebody's spirit
• tribute to a person who is about to depart

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to become unworldly; to stop keeping up with social norms; to be out of touch with reality ➜ 世間離れ

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to stick into and move around; to dig around in; to pick (i.e. one's teeth)

adverb:

• as much as possible; as far as possible; to the best of one's ability; diligently

noun:

• annual event of miso-making
• first steps of miso making, from simmering the beans to fermentation

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to break by hand (e.g. a flower); to break off (a twig); to pluck (a flower, a bud)
• to make a young woman one's own thing

noun:

• uniform management; uniform control

~する noun:

• to control centrally; to manage centrally; to consolidate; to unify

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to suck in; to take in; to sop up; to take up

noun:

• head; chief; leader; elder
• the greatest of all; the most excellent

adverb:

• at once; right away; promptly; on the spur of the moment

noun:

• the whole body; limbs ［五体］
• the five styles in Japanese calligraphy ➜ 行書・書道・真書・草書・大篆・八分【はっぷん】・隷書・楷書・篆書

noun / ~する noun:

• moon viewing (esp. during the eight month of the lunar calendar) ➜ 月見

noun / ~する noun:

• Buddhist memorial service; prayers for the repose of the soul

noun:

• perestroika; reform movement within the Soviet Communist Party in the 1980s - From Russian "perestroyka"