List: Godan verb with 'ku' ending
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to lament, to grieve, to regret
- to deplore
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to flip, to snap, to flick
- to repel
- to use (an abacus), to calculate
- to strum, to pluck the strings (of a guitar, etc.)
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument)
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb usually written using kana alone auxiliary verb
- to put, to place
- to leave (behind)
- to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.), to set up
- to appoint (someone to a certain position), to hire, to employ
- to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc.), to bear (in mind, etc.)
- to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool
- to take in (boarders, etc.), to provide lodging in one's house
- to separate spatially or temporally
- to do something in advance
- to leave something in a certain state, to keep something in a certain state
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to build, to construct, to erect
- to build up (a reputation, position, fortune, etc.), to establish (a relationship, household, tradition, etc.), to lay (a foundation)
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to arrive at, to reach
- to sit on, to sit at (e.g. the table)
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to pass (a car), to overtake
- to surpass, to outstrip, to outdistance, to outsail
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be lit (of a lamp, burner, etc.), to catch fire, to ignite, to start burning
- to be turned on (of a light, appliance, etc.), to come on
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to breathe out, to breathe
- to tell (a lie), to use (foul language)
- to vomit, to throw up, to spit up
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb linguistics
- to work, to labor, to labour
- to function, to operate, to be effective, to work (i.e. ... works), to come into play
- to commit (e.g. a crime), to perpetrate, to do, to act, to practise, to practice
- to be conjugated