List: verb (generic)
All kinds of Japanese verbs
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be intimate with, to befriend
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to insert, to include, to incorporate, to install
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to read
- to recite (e.g. a sutra), to chant
- to predict, to guess, to forecast, to read (someone's thoughts), to see (e.g. into someone's heart), to divine
- to pronounce, to read (e.g. a kanji)
- to decipher, to read (a meter, graph, music, etc.), to tell (the time)
- to count, to estimate
- to read (a kanji) with its native Japanese reading
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to tie, to bind, to fasten
- to restrict (freedom), to tie down (with rules, regulations, etc.), to fetter
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to jump out, to leap out, to fly out, to run out, to rush out, to bolt out
- to appear (suddenly), to emerge, to come out
- to protrude, to project, to jut out, to stick out
- to leave (a company, one's hometown, etc.), to run away (from home), to cut ties with
- to start flying
popular JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to get dark, to grow dark
- to end (of a day, year, season, etc.), to come to an end, to close
- to be sunk in (e.g. despair), to be lost in (e.g. thought), to be overcome with
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to desire, to want, to wish for, to hope for
- to expect (of someone), to hope for, to look forward to
- to see, to command (a view of), to overlook
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to feel down, to feel sad, to be depressed, to be in low spirits
- to be in a slump (business, economy, etc.), to be in an unfavourable condition
- to fall into (e.g. a hole)
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to make (the best) use of, to put to good use, to leverage (skills, attributes, experience, etc.), to capitalise on (experience, etc.)
- to let live, to keep alive
- to revive, to resuscitate, to bring back to life
- to restore (a deleted passage; in proofreading)
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb sumo
- to wring (towel, rag), to squeeze
- to squeeze (fruit to extract juice), to press, to extract, to milk, to express milk
- to rack (one's brains), to strain (one's voice)
- to extort, to exploit
- to chew out, to reprimand severely, to rake over the coals, to give a sound scolding, to tell someone off, to scold, to rebuke
- to drill into, to train
- to narrow down (one's focus), to whittle down
- to gather up (curtain, etc.), to tighten (drawstring)
- to stop down (lens)
- to turn down (e.g. radio)
- to bend (bow), to draw
- to hold down, to constrict, to immobilize