List: verb (generic)
All kinds of Japanese verbs
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to hit
- to expose
- to apply (e.g. patch), to put on, to put against, to hold on, to hold against
- to allot, to call on someone (e.g. in class)
- to guess (an answer)
- to make a hit (e.g. in a lottery)
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to buy, to purchase
- to value (highly), to think highly of, to have a high opinion of, to appreciate, to recognize
- to incur (someone's anger, displeasure, etc.), to elicit (e.g. sneers), to invite (e.g. scorn), to evoke, to arouse, to win (someone's favour)
- to accept, to take on, to take up
- to pay for (a prostitute, geisha, etc.)
popular JLPT N1 noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ verb (generic) noun (generic) intransitive verb
- to be a match for, to rival, to equal, to compare with, to be equivalent to
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to tell (a story), to give an account of (an event, experience, etc.), to relate, to recount
- to tell of, to show, to indicate, to prove, to attest to
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to invite, to ask (someone to do), to call (for), to take (someone) along
- to tempt, to lure, to entice, to seduce
- to induce (tears, laughter, sleepiness, etc.), to arouse (e.g. sympathy), to provoke
popular JLPT N1 suru verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to need, to demand, to take, to require
popular irregular okurigana JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb computing slang
- to fall, to drop, to come down, to crash, to collapse, to cave in, to give way
- to set (of the sun or moon), to sink, to dip, to go down
- to decrease (of popularity, quality, speed, sales, etc.), to fall, to drop, to go down, to decline, to deteriorate, to abate (of wind)
- to be inferior (to), to be not as good (as), to fall short (of)
- to come off (of dirt, paint, makeup, etc.), to come out (of a stain), to fade (of colour), to be removed (of an illness, possessing spirit, etc.)
- to disappear (of excess fat), to become thinner, to become leaner
- to be left out, to be omitted, to be missing
- to fail (an exam), to lose (a contest, election, etc.), to be unsuccessful
- to decline (of morals, character, etc.), to become vulgar (e.g. of a conversation), to stoop (to), to sink (so low)
- to be ruined, to go under, to fall (into hell)
- to fall (in love, asleep, etc.)
- to fall (into someone's hands), to be accepted (of a bid), to be won (of a tender), to be honoured (of a bill)
- to fall into (a trap), to fall for (a trick)
- to give in
- to confess, to own up
- to come to (a conclusion, topic, etc.), to arrive at (in the end)
- to leave (a city, castle, etc.), to (be defeated and) flee
- to sink in, to be accepted (in one's heart)
- to fall (to the enemy), to be defeated
- to come in (of money)
- to fall (upon; of light, a shadow, one's gaze, etc.)
- to pass out (in judo), to fall unconscious
- to go down (of a website, server, etc.), to crash
- to log out (of an online game, chat room, etc.), to drop out, to leave, to go offline
- to move to deeper water (of a fish in cold weather)
- to die (of an animal)
popular JLPT N5 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to descend (e.g. a mountain), to go down, to come down
- to alight (e.g. from bus), to get off, to disembark, to dismount
- to step down, to retire, to give up, to quit, to fold
- to be granted, to be issued, to be given
- to form (of frost, dew, mist, etc.)
- to be passed (from the body; e.g. of a roundworm)
popular JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to bring forward (e.g. by 3 hours), to advance, to hasten (e.g. one's death), to expedite, to precipitate
- to quicken (e.g. one's step), to speed up, to accelerate
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to branch, to fork, to diverge
- to separate, to split, to divide
- to disperse, to scatter