My words

移る

うつる

to move (house) to transfer (department) to change the target of interest or concern to elapse (passage of time) to be permeated by a colour or scent to be infected to be contagious to spread (as in fire)

奪う

うばう

to snatch away to dispossess to steal

生まれる

うまれる

to be born

埋める

うめる うずめる うずめる、うめる

to cover to bury (eg ones face in hands) to submerge to fill (completely) to stuff to pack to cram to fill up

裏切る

うらぎる

to betray to turn traitor to to doublecross

売り切れる

うりきれる

to be sold out

売る

うる

to sell

売れる

うれる

to sell (well) to be well known to be popular to be famous

選ぶ

えらぶ

to choose to select

追いかける

おいかける

to chase to run after to pursue

追い越す

おいこす

to pass (e.g. car), to overtake to surpass, to outstrip, to get ahead of, to outdistance

追う

おう

to chase, to run after, to pursue to follow (i.e. a set order, a trend) to drive out, to oust, to expel to drive (i.e. a herd) (in passive voice) to be pressed (for time, etc.)

覆う

おおう

to cover, to hide, to conceal, to wrap, to disguise

起きる

おきる

to get up, to rise to wake up, to be awake, to stay awake to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents), to happen, to take place

置く

おく

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 (ones trust, ones 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 ones 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

送る

おくる

to send (a thing), to dispatch, to despatch, to transmit to take or escort (a person somewhere), to see off (a person) to bid farewell (to the departed), to bury to spend (time), to live ones life to pass (down the line) to affix okurigana

贈る

おくる

to give (as a gift), to present to confer, to bestow, to award

押す

おす

to push, to press to apply pressure from above, to press down to stamp (i.e. a passport), to apply a seal to affix (e.g. gold leaf) to press (someone for something), to urge, to compel, to influence to overwhelm, to overpower, to repress to push (events along), to advance (a plan) to do in spite of..., to do even though..., to force to make sure to be pressed for time to advance troops, to attack (of light) to be diffused across an entire surface

踊る

おどる

to dance (orig. a hopping dance)

覚える

おぼえる

to memorize, to memorise, to commit to memory, to learn by heart, to bear in mind, to remember to learn, to pick up, to acquire to feel to think, to regard

思いつく

おもいつく

to think of; to hit upon; to come into ones mind; to be struck with an idea to remember; to recall

思い出す

おもいだす

to recall, to remember, to recollect

思う

おもう

to think, to consider, to believe to think (of doing), to plan (to do) to judge, to assess, to regard to imagine, to suppose, to dream to expect, to look forward to to feel, to desire, to want to recall, to remember

泳ぐ

およぐ

to swim

降りる

おりる

to descend (e.g. a mountain), to go down, to come down to alight (e.g. from bus), to get off, to disembark, to dismount to step down, to retire, to give up, to quit to be granted, to be issued, to be given to form (of frost, dew, mist, etc.) to be passed (from the body; e.g. of a roundworm)

折る

おる

to break, to fracture, to break off, to snap off, to pick (e.g. flowers) to fold, to bend to make (origami) to interrupt, to end

買う

かう

to buy, to purchase to value, to have a high opinion to stir, to provoke

飼う

かう

to keep (a pet or other animal), to raise, to have, to own, to feed

返す

かえす

to return (something), to restore, to put back to turn over, to turn upside down, to overturn to pay back, to retaliate, to reciprocate to repeat..., to do... back

帰す

きす かえす

to send (someone) back, to send (someone) home