List: Godan verb with 'ru' ending
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.), to take (a measure, course of action, etc.), to decide on
- to pick (e.g. flowers), to gather (e.g. mushrooms), to catch (e.g. insects)
- to extract (e.g. juice), to take (e.g. a sample)
- to assume (an attitude)
- to take on (workers, students), to employ, to hire
- to draw in (e.g. water), to let in (e.g. light from a window)
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to blurt out, to let slip, to say inadvertently, to come out with (e.g. nonsense)
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- 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)
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to break, to smash, to defeat, to destroy, to eliminate
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to plunder, to grab, to snatch
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to rebound, to recoil, to spring back up, to bounce back
- to splash
- to have a repercussion, to have a reciprocal effect
popular search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to pull out, to draw out, to extract, to remove
- to pick out, to take (a sample)
- to steal (the contents of something), to pilfer, to pickpocket
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to jump up, to spring up, to leap
- to move around, to bounce up and down
- to pound (of one's heart, e.g. with excitement), to throb
- to be messy (of handwriting), to be untidy
popular irregular kanji usage godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to join, to be put together, to combine, to unite, to fit, to close (e.g. of a wound)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb usually written using kana alone
- to move (house), to transfer (department)
- to change the target of interest or concern
- to elapse (passage of time)
- to be permeated by a colour or scent
- to be infected, to be contagious, to spread (as in fire)