ichidan verb / transitive:

• to make narrower; to shut (an umbrella); to shrug (one's shoulders); to purse (one's lips)

noun:

• personal appearance and physique; person's appearance and physique giving a feeling of respectable character - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to fall into (someone's) hands; to fall under someone's control; to become someone's property (e.g. of an object)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to compose (a Japanese poem); to write; to use as the theme of a poem
• to recite (e.g. a poem); to chant; to intone

noun:

• visitor to a sick or distressed person; hospital visitor; inquirer

expression / godan ~む verb:

• to manipulate figures to one's advantage; to count wrongly on purpose; to inflate or deflate one's age - idiom

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to give one's everything; to make one's best effort; to be enthused; to put your back into it - idiom

noun:

• ordinary person; average person; mediocre person

noun:

• well-informed person; thinking person; intelligent person

noun:

• moody person; temperamental person; fickle person ➜ 天気屋

noun:

• lonesome person; unwanted person; poverty-stricken person

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

noun:

• winding a replacement thread, wire, etc.
• changing from an overarm to an underarm grip on one's opponent's belt - Sumo term

expression:

• first verse of a nursery rhyme sung by children on cold days (similar to "It's Raining, It's Pouring")

expression / ichidan verb:

• to flee from one's enemy; to turn tail
• to expose one's weakness to an adversary

noun:

• young person who stays in their (non-metropolitan) hometown after graduation, drives a car, etc. (unlike the majority who moves to a larger city and commutes by train) ➜ ヤンキー

noun / ~する noun:

• lead; leading; taking the lead

noun:

• lead (of a newspaper, etc.); lede
• lead (wire)
• lead (e.g. dog); leash
• reed (of a woodwind, etc.)
• lied; German song, usu. for solo voice & piano - From German "Lied" ➜ リート

noun / ~する noun:

• read; reading

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to attract someone's affection
• to sound out somebody
• to get one's hooks into

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to take someone down a peg; to cut someone down to size; to dampen someone's confidence

godan ~う verb / transitive:

• to chase; to run after; to pursue; to follow after
• to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.)
• to drive out; to get rid of; to oust; to expel
• to drive (e.g. a herd)
• to be pressed (e.g. for time) - in passive voice

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to become hard and fibrous; to go to seed; to have passed one's prime; to have lost the first bloom of one's youth

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to regain one's footing; to get back on one's feet
• to recover; (of the market) to improve

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to run (race, esp. horse); to dash
• to gallop (one's horse); to canter
• to advance (against one's enemy) - archaism

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to be able to hold one's head up (of a baby)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to put a stop to; to put a hold on; to put the brakes on; to call a halt to; to block; to shelve