List: verb (generic)
All kinds of Japanese verbs
popular Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to keep within limits (e.g. spending), to restrain (e.g. emotions), to control, to curb, to hold in check
- to hold back (e.g. an enemy), to check, to curb, to contain, to quell, to subdue, to suppress, to repress
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to incorporate, to include
- to fill (a vessel) with
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to give (as a gift), to present
- to confer, to bestow, to award
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to take (by force), to take away, to snatch, to steal, to rob (someone) of, to dispossess of, to deprive of, to usurp
- to absorb (one's attention), to fascinate, to captivate, to charm, to dazzle
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb baseball
- to herd, to drive, to chase, to corral
- to corner, to force someone into doing
- to go hard, to push yourself, to make a last charge
- to run on (e.g. lines in printing)
- to have two strikes
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to chase, to run after, to pursue, to follow after
- to follow (a set order, a trend, etc.)
- to drive out, to get rid of, to oust, to expel
- to drive (e.g. a herd)
- to be pressed (e.g. for time)
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to divide (into), to split (into), to part, to separate, to divide up, to classify, to sort out, to divide out
- to share, to distribute, to deal out, to dish out
- to distinguish, to discriminate, to differentiate (between)
- to break up (a fight), to mediate
- to call a draw, to tie
- to push one's way through (a crowd)
- to sell
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be separated, to be apart, to be distant
- to leave, to go away
- to leave (a job, etc.), to quit, to give up
- to lose connection with, to drift away from
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone expression adverb noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă verb (generic) noun (generic)
- something, something or other, so-and-so
- somehow, anyhow, one way or another
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to restrict, to limit, to confine
- to be restricted to, to be limited to, to be confined to
- to be best (for), to be the best plan, to be the only way (to)