Common Verbs

Godan verb with `ru' ending, intransitive verb

to hang down; to abate; to retire; to fall; to step back

Godan verb with `ru' ending, intransitive verb

to precipitate; to fall (e.g. rain)

Ichidan verb, intransitive verb

to fall; to collapse; to drop; to fall senseless

to be forced to bed (by illness, etc.)

to die

to go bankrupt; to be ruined; to have a bad debt

to be defeated (in a game)

to fall (of governments, dictators, etc.)

Godan verb with `su' ending, transitive verb

to take out; to get out

to put out; to reveal; to show

to submit (e.g. thesis); to turn in

to publish; to make public

to send (e.g. letter)

to produce (a sound); to start (fire)

to serve (food)

suffix

to begin

Ichidan verb, transitive verb

to exchange; to replace

Godan verb with `ru' ending

to enter

to break into

to join; to enroll

to contain; to hold; to accommodate

to have (an income of)

Godan verb with `mu' ending

to enjoy (oneself)

Godan verb with `ru' ending, intransitive verb

to finish; to end; to close

Ichidan verb, transitive verb

to eat

to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on

Godan verb with `mu' ending, transitive verb

to drink; to gulp; to swallow

to smoke (tobacco)

to engulf; to overwhelm

to keep down; to suppress

to accept (e.g. demand, condition)

to make light of; to conceal

suru verb - irregular

to do

to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into)

to serve as; to act as; to work as

to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)

to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as

to decide on; to choose

suru verb - irregular, intransitive verb

to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.)

to be (in a state, condition, etc.)

to be worth; to cost

to pass (of time); to elapse

suffix, suru verb - irregular

verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")

auxiliary verb, suru verb - irregular

creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")

to be just about to; to be just starting to; to try to; to attempt to

Godan verb with `ru' ending, transitive verb

to do

to have sexual intercourse

to kill

to give (to inferiors, animals, etc.)

auxiliary verb

to do for (inferiors)

to send (e.g. somebody somewhere); to dispatch (e.g. letter) (despatch)

to move (something to); to row (a boat)

(used in place of other verb) to have (eat, drink, smoke); to study; to run or operate (a restaurant)

Godan verb with `nu' ending, irregular nu verb, intransitive verb

to die

Ichidan verb, transitive verb

to decide; to choose; to determine; to make up one's mind; to resolve; to set one's heart on; to settle; to arrange; to set; to appoint; to fix

to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match)

to persist in doing; to go through with

to always do; to have made a habit of

to take for granted; to assume

to dress up; to dress to kill; to dress to the nines

to carry out successfully (a move in sports, a pose in dance, etc.); to succeed in doing

Martial Arts Term

to immobilize with a double-arm lock (in sumo, judo, etc.)

suffix, Godan verb with `ru' ending, transitive verb

to cut (usu. to cut through)

to sever (connections, ties)

to turn off (i.e. the light)

to terminate (i.e. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to disconnect

to punch (a ticket); to tear off (a stub)

to open (something sealed)

to start

to set (a limit)

to reduce; to decrease; to discount

to shake off (water, etc.); to let drip-dry (or drain)

to cross

to do (something noticeable)

to turn (a vehicle)

to cut (the ball)

to shuffle (cards)

to trump

(in Go) to isolate (an opponent's stone)

suffix, Godan verb with `ru' ending

(after the -masu stem of a verb) to finish; to complete