List: godan verb (archaic)
All kinds of godan verbs (archaic)
popular JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to continue, to last, to go on
- to continue (without a break), to be unbroken
- to occur again and again
- to lead to, to connect to, to adjoin
- to come after, to follow, to succeed, to rank next to
- to hold out, to keep, to last
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be complete, to be all present, to make a full set, to be satisfied (of conditions)
- to be equal, to be uniform, to be even, to match, to agree
- to gather, to assemble, to be collected
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb computing
- to strike, to hit, to beat, to knock, to pound, to bang, to slap, to spank, to tap, to pat, to clap (one's hands), to play (the drums)
- to attack, to bash, to criticize, to censure, to flame (on the Internet)
- to sound out (someone's views)
- to pound (meat or fish), to chop into small pieces
- to beat down the price
- to talk (big, bad, idly, etc.)
- to call, to invoke (e.g. a function)
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to follow (a road, path, etc.), to trace
- to follow (a clue, scent, tracks, plot, etc.), to trace (a route, history, family tree, etc.), to retrace (e.g. one's memory), to search, to go over
- to head towards (of a situation), to go in the direction of, to take (a course), to pursue (a path), to meet (a fate)
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to lament, to grieve, to regret
- to deplore
popular irregular okurigana usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb auxiliary verb
- to indulge in, to give oneself up to, to be obsessed by
- to be engrossed in, to be lost in, to be absorbed in
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to flip, to snap, to flick
- to repel
- to use (an abacus), to calculate
- to strum, to pluck the strings (of a guitar, etc.)
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to play (a stringed or keyboard instrument)
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to slacken, to loosen, to relax, to droop (e.g. loose or flabby skin), to sag (ceiling)
- to slack off (e.g. one's work, attention), to not put one's heart in
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb usually written using kana alone auxiliary verb
- to put, to place
- to leave (behind)
- to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.), to set up
- to appoint (someone to a certain position), to hire, to employ
- to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc.), to bear (in mind, etc.)
- to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool
- to take in (boarders, etc.), to provide lodging in one's house
- to separate spatially or temporally
- to do something in advance
- to leave something in a certain state, to keep something in a certain state