My words

考える

かんがえる

to think about to take into consideration to ponder to reflect to try to come at a conclusion to think over (something) to intend to decide (to do) to plan to come up with to devise to scheme to predict to anticipate to expect to suspect to doubt to consider (somebody to be something) to look on

感じる

かんじる

to feel to sense to experience

関する

かんする

to concern to be related

頑張る

がんばる

to persevere to persist to keep at it to hang on to hold out to do ones best to insist that to stick to (ones opinion) to remain in a place to stick to ones post to refuse to budge

消える

きえる

to go out to vanish to disappear

着替える

きがえる きかえる

to change ones clothes

聞く

きく

to hear to listen (eg to music) to ask to enquire to query to learn of to hear about to follow (advice) to comply with to smell (esp incense) to sample fragrance

効く

きく

to be effective to show effect to do its work to carry out its function well to be possible to use

聞こえる

きこえる

to be heard to be audible to be said to be to be reputed

刻む

きざむ

to mince to cut fine to chop up to hash to shred to carve to engrave to chisel to notch to tick away (time) to record the passing moments to etch (into ones mind) to remember distinctly to have tattooed to torment

着せる

きせる

to put clothes on (someone) to plate to gild to veneer to accuse (of some crime) to give (a bad name)

気づく

きづく

to notice to realize to realise to become aware (of) to perceive to sense to suspect to regain consciousness to come to (ones senses) to come round

気に入る

きにいる

to be pleased with to suit

決める

きめる

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 to immobilize with a doublearm lock (in sumo judo etc) to eat or drink something to take illegal drugs to appoint to determine to decide to resolve to set ones heart on to make up ones mind to arrange to choose to fix to set to settle

嫌う

きらう

to hate to dislike to loathe

切る

きる

to cut to cut through to perform (surgery) to sever (connections ties) to turn off (ie the light) to terminate (ie 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 do (something) in less or within a certain time to issue (stamps vouchers etc) to reduce to decrease to discount to shake off (water etc) to let dripdry to let drain to cross to traverse to criticize sharply to act decisively to do (something noticeable) to go first to make (certain facial expressions in kabuki) to turn (a vehicle) to curl (a ball) to bend to cut to shuffle (cards) to dismiss to sack to let go to expulse to excommunicate to dig (a groove) to cut (a stencil on a mimeograph) to trump (in Go) to isolate (an opponents stone) to start a fire (with woodwood friction or by striking a metal against stone) to draw (a shape) in the air (with a sword etc) to finish to complete

斬る

きる

to kill (a human) using a blade (sword machete knife etc) to slice (off) to lop (off) to cut (off)

切れる

きれる

to break to snap to be cut to split to crack to be injured to wear out to be worn out to break to burst to collapse to wear off to stop working to go dead to expire (time limit etc) to run out to become due to run out (of stock etc) to be exhausted to be used up to be sold out to be out of to be broken off (eg of a relationship) to break up to have severed ties to be cut off to be disconnected to cut well to be sharp to be sharpminded to be keen to be shrewd to be quickwitted to be able to be short of to drop under (a certain figure) to beat (eg a record time) to dry off to curve to veer to shuffle (cards) to get angry to snap to blow ones top to lose ones temper to flip to be able to do completely

食う

くう

to eat to live to make a living to survive to bite to sting (as insects do) to tease to torment to taunt to make light of to make fun of to encroach on to eat into to consume to defeat a superior to threaten a position to consume time andor resources to receive something (usu an unfavourable event) to have sexual relations with a woman esp for the first time

区切る

くぎる

to demarcate to delimit to divide (an area) to mark off to cut off to punctuate to put an end to (eg a sentence) to insert pauses or breaks (eg when reading aloud)

腐る

くさる

to rot to go bad to decay to spoil to fester to decompose to turn sour (eg milk) to corrode to weather to crumble to become useless to blunt to weaken (from lack of practice) to become depraved to be degenerate to be morally bankrupt to be corrupt to be depressed to be dispirited to feel discouraged to feel down indicates scorn or disdain for anothers action to lose a bet to be drenched to become sopping wet

崩す

くずす

to destroy to demolish to pull down to tear down to level to disturb to put into disorder to throw off balance to make shaky to relax (ones pose) to make oneself at ease to break (a bill) to change to make change to write in cursive style to write in running style to break into a smile to let off a smile to lower (a price)

崩れる

くずれる

to collapse to crumble to get out of shape to lose ones shape to become disorganized to become untidy to break down to be thrown into disarray to crash (stock market) to slump to decline to break money into small change to turn bad (eg weather) to change for the worse to deteriorate

砕く

くだく

to break to smash

砕ける

くだける

to break (into pieces) to be broken to be smashed to collapse to crumble to decline to cool (eg enthusiasm) to dampen (eg ones will to fight) to become less formal to throw off reserve to become affable to become easy to understand (eg a story) to be worried

下さる

くださる

to give to confer to bestow to kindly do for one to oblige to favour to favor

草臥れる

くたびれる

to get tired to be exhausted to wear out to be battered from long use

下る

くだる

to descend to go down to come down to be handed down (of an order judgment etc) to pass (of time) to surrender to capitulate (often in neg form) to be less than to be inferior to to have the runs to have diarrhea

くっ付く

くっつく

to adhere to to stick to to cling to to keep close to to go along with to get involved with to be thick with to become intimate

くっ付ける

くっつける

to attach to stick together to paste to glue to place together to put sidebyside to make someone get married to get someone hitched