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) transitive verb intransitive verb
- 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)