List: Godan verb with 'ru' ending
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to bear fruit
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to see someone off (at a station, an airport, etc.), to escort (e.g. home)
- to follow something with one's eyes until it is out of sight
- to let pass, to pass up (an opportunity etc.), to let a pitch go by (baseball), to watch a batted ball go into the stands
- to shelve (a plan, deliberation on a bill, etc.), to postpone
- to have someone related or close to you die, to bury someone
- to take care of someone until he dies
- to wait and see, to continue (e.g. in legal contexts)
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to rise, to swell, to be promoted
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to sell
- to betray, to sell out (one's friend, country, etc.)
- to make (oneself) known, to establish (a reputation) for oneself
- to pick (a fight, quarrel, etc.), to provoke, to force on someone
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to talk about, to speak of, to tell, to narrate
- to recite, to chant
- to indicate, to show
popular irregular kanji usage JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to protect, to guard, to defend
- to keep (i.e. a promise), to abide (by the rules), to observe, to obey, to follow
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be silent, to say nothing
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to run
- to run (of a vehicle), to drive, to travel, to move, to sail
- to rush (to), to dash, to race
- to retreat, to flee, to defect (to)
- to run away, to abscond, to elope
- to flash (of lightning), to streak, to shoot (through; e.g. of pain), to run (through), to flare, to flit (e.g. across one's face), to spread quickly (of news, shock, etc.)
- to go (e.g. bad, to extremes), to become, to turn, to take to (e.g. crime), to get carried away by (e.g. one's emotions), to get involved in, to get wrapped up in
- to run (through; of a road, street, etc.), to extend (e.g. of a mountain range), to stretch, to lie
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to refuse, to reject, to dismiss, to turn down, to decline
- to inform, to give notice, to tell in advance
- to ask leave, to excuse oneself (from)
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to tell (a story), to give an account of (an event, experience, etc.), to relate, to recount
- to tell of, to show, to indicate, to prove, to attest to