List: Godan verb with 'ru' ending
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be reflected, to harmonize with (harmonise), to come out (photo), to be projected, to be displayed (on a screen)
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to bend, to curve, to warp, to wind, to twist
- to turn
- to be awry, to be askew, to be crooked
popular JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to shine, to glitter, to be bright
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to begin, to start, to commence
- to happen (again), to begin (anew)
- to date (from), to originate (in)
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to become muddy, to become cloudy, to become turbid, to become impure (of a liquid or gas)
- to become dull (of a sound, color, etc.), to become indistinct, to become fuzzy, to become hoarse
- to become impure (of one's heart, a society, etc.), to be corrupted, to be polluted
- to become voiced (of a consonant), to be pronounced as a voiced sound
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to roll, to tumble
- to fall over, to roll over
- to lie down
- to be scattered about, to be lying around
- (of a situation or outcome) to change, to turn out
- to come easily, to be common, to fall into one's hands, to grow on trees
popular irregular kanji usage JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to shout (in anger), to yell
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to compromise, to meet halfway
- to step up to, to walk up to, to approach
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be buried, to be covered, to be surrounded
- to overflow, to be crowded, to be filled
- to be repaid (e.g. debt), to be replenished
- to be filled (e.g. blank, vacancy, schedule)
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb sumo
- to hang on to, to hang from, to cling to
- to hound, to keep after (someone), to refuse to back down, to persist, to tenaciously face (someone), to doggedly oppose
- to grab the front of the opponent's mawashi, place one's head against their chest, and lower one's hips