List: verb (generic)
All kinds of Japanese verbs
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to win and advance to the next round
popular rarely used kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb sumo
- to slash back
- to strike back, to counterattack
- to retort
- to quickly turn the steering wheel in the opposite direction, to cut the wheel
- to perform a twisting backward knee trip
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to regain one's footing, to get back on one's feet
- to recover, (of the market) to improve
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb archaic
- to fall down, to fall over
- to turn out, to play out
- to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism), to apostatize
- to roll, to tumble
- (for a geisha) to prostitute (herself) in secret
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to become quiet, to quiet down, to quieten down
- to calm down, to die down, to subside, to abate, to be suppressed
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to catch, to capture, to arrest, to seize, to restrain
- to grab, to clutch, to grasp, to seize, to hold on to
- to catch hold of (someone), to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street), to hail (a taxi, waiter, etc.), to hold (someone) back, to detain
- towards (someone), at (someone), in (someone's) face
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to drink, to swallow, to take (medicine)
- to smoke (tobacco)
- to swallow up, to engulf
- to suppress (one's anger, bitter feelings, etc.), to keep down, to hold back, to swallow (one's tears), to catch (one's breath)
- to accept (a demand, conditions, etc.), to agree to
- to make light of (someone), to think nothing of, to overwhelm, to overawe
- to carry (a concealed dagger, etc.), to conceal (up one's sleeve, etc.)
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to compose (a Japanese poem), to write, to use as the theme of a poem
- to recite (e.g. a poem), to chant, to intone
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to cross (e.g. road), to traverse
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to accustom, to train (e.g. one's ear)
- to tame, to domesticate, to train (an animal)