List: verb (generic)
All kinds of Japanese verbs
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 JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to write, to publish
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to wither (of flowers, dreams, etc.), to wilt, to droop, to shrivel, to fade (away), to sag, to deflate
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to talk, to chat, to chatter
popular search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to jump up, to leap up, to spring up
- to fly up (into the sky), to soar up, to take off
- to jump ahead, to skip ahead
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to fly, to soar
- to jump, to leap, to spring, to bound, to hop
- to spatter, to scatter, to splash, to fly (e.g. of sparks)
- to hurry, to rush
- to flee, to run off, to escape
- to disappear, to vanish, to fade, to thin out
- to break off, to come off, to fall off, to blow (of a fuse)
- to be sent out (of an order), to fly (of false rumours, catcalls, etc.)
- to come flying (of a punch, kick, etc.)
- to be missing (of a page, stitch, etc.), to skip, to jump (e.g. of a conversation)
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to make (good) progress, to move right ahead (with the work), to advance
popular JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to sink (e.g. a ship), to submerge
- to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair)
- to floor (an opponent)
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to pass (a car), to overtake
- to surpass, to outstrip, to outdistance, to outsail