List: Godan verb with 'ru' ending (irregular verb)
popular JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb auxiliary verb
- to be, to exist, to live
- to have
- to be located
- to be equipped with
- to happen, to come about
- to exist (in a completed state), to be (something unchanged in its current state)
popular formal or literary term copula godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- be, is
popular usually written using kana alone expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- (for something) to have occurred, to have done (something)
- (for something) to happen on occasion
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case)
- to be ... or something
expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- it says ..., it reads ..., ... is written
proverb expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- what happens twice will happen thrice
idiomatic expression expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to be evasive, to be not entirely truthful, to not be frank
expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to be hard to deal with, to be an eccentric, to be idiosyncratic
search-only kanji form expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to have a limit, to go too far (e.g. of a joke)
expression godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to have a reason, to have an excuse