List: godan verb (archaic)
All kinds of godan verbs (archaic)
popular obsolete reading rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to step back, to move back, to retreat
- to withdraw (from the presence of a superior), to leave, to exit
- to resign, to retire, to quit
- to concede
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb Kansai-ben Internet slang intransitive verb
- to cook (grains, e.g. rice)
- to boil, to simmer, to stew, to seethe
- to get angry, to snap
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to burn, to kindle, to light (a fire), to make (a fire)
- to heat (a bath), to light (a stove), to stoke (a boiler)
- to use (a camera flash)
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to make war (on), to wage war (against), to go to war (with), to fight (with), to do battle (against)
- to compete (against)
- to struggle (against adversities, etc.), to fight, to contend, to resist
popular search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be crowded, to be packed, to be busy
- to be piled up (of work), to be busy (with many things), to be packed (of one's schedule), to have a lot of work to do, to have one's hands full
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to take (someone to a place), to take (someone) with one, to take along, to lead away
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to value, to prize, to esteem
- to respect, to honour, to honor, to revere, to look up to
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be fragrant, to smell (good)
- to stink, to smell (bad)
- to glow, to be bright
- to smack of, to show hints of
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to swallow, to gulp down
- to understand, to grasp, to take in, to catch on, to learn
- to engulf, to swallow up
- to be filled with (people), to contain
- to swallow (one's words), to suppress (a yawn, tears, etc.), to stifle, to hold back
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to measure, to weigh, to survey, to time (sound, gauge, estimate)
- to conjecture, to infer, to surmise