List: godan verb (archaic)
All kinds of godan verbs (archaic)
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
popular irregular okurigana rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to tear off, to peel off, to rip off, to strip off, to skin, to flay, to disrobe, to deprive of, to detach, to disconnect
popular search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to raise, to bring up, to rear
- to cultivate, to foster, to nurture
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to protrude, to stick out, to jut out, to hang out, to bulge out
- to be forced out, to be pushed out, to be crowded out
- to go over (e.g. a budget), to go beyond, to exceed
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to strike back at, to bite back, to turn on, to rise against, to oppose, to defy
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to have a cramp, to twitch, to spasm
- to stiffen (of a face, expression), to freeze, to grow tight (e.g. of a voice)
- to shrink (of skin, due to a scar), to tauten
popular search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to stretch larger
- to enlarge (photos)
- to delay (e.g. the end of a meeting)
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb
- to spout out, to spurt out, to gush out, to jet out
- to sprout, to bud
- to burst into laughter
- to blow (smoke, etc.)
- to send out shoots (of a tree)