My words

歩く

あるく

to walk

会う

あう

to meet to encounter to see to have an accident to have a bad experience

遊ぶ

あそぶ あすぶ

to mess about (with alcohol gambling philandery etc) to be idle to do nothing to be unused to go to (for pleasure or for study) to intentionally throw a ball to lower the batters concentration to enjoy oneself to play to have a good time

有る

ある

to be (usu of inanimate objects) to exist to live to have to be located to be equipped with to happen to come about

買う

かう

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

行く

いく ゆく

to go, to move (in a direction or towards a specific location), to head (towards), to be transported (towards), to reach to proceed, to take place to pass through, to come and go to walk to die, to pass away to do (in a specific way) to stream, to flow to continue to have an orgasm, to come, to cum to trip, to get high, to have a drug-induced hallucination

入れる

いれる

to put in, to let in, to take in, to bring in, to insert, to set (a jewel, etc.), to ink in (e.g. a tattoo) to admit, to accept, to employ, to hire to accept, to comply, to grant, to adopt (a policy, etc.), to take (advice, to listen to, to pay attention to to include to pay (ones rent, etc.) to cast (a vote) to make (tea, coffee, etc.) to turn on (a switch, etc.) to send (a fax), to call

売る

うる

to sell

教える

おしえる

to teach, to inform, to instruct

泳ぐ

およぐ

to swim

掛かる

かかる

to take (a resource, e.g. time or money) to hang to come into view, to arrive to come under (a contract, a tax) to start (engines, motors) to attend, to deal with, to handle to have started to, to be on the verge of to overlap (e.g. information in a manual), to cover to (come) at to be fastened to be covered (e.g. with dust, a table-cloth, etc.) to be caught in to get a call to depend on

貸す

かす

to lend, to loan to rent out, to hire out

消える

きえる

to go out, to vanish, to disappear

開ける

はだける あける ひらける

to become opened up, to improve, to get better to develop, to progress, to become civilized (civilised), to be up-to-date to be enlightened, to be sensible

浴びる

あびる

to dash over oneself (e.g. water), to take (e.g. shower), to bask in (e.g. the sun), to bathe in, to be flooded with (e.g. light), to be covered in to suffer (e.g. an attack), to draw (e.g. criticism, attention, praise), to have heaped upon, to be showered with

要る

いる

to need, to want

生まれる

うまれる

to be born

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

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

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)

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

書く

かく

to write, to compose, to pen to draw, to paint

被る

かぶる かむる こうむる かぶる/

to suffer, to receive, to sustain

聞く

きく

to hear to listen (e.g. 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

上げる

あげる

to raise, to elevate to do up (ones hair) to fly (a kite, etc.), to launch (fireworks, to surface (a submarine to land (a boat) to deep-fry to show someone (into a room) to summon (for geishas, etc.) to send someone (away) to enrol (ones child in school), to enroll to increase (price, quality, status, etc.), to develop (talent, skill), to improve to make (a loud sound), to raise (ones voice) to earn (something desirable) to praise to give (an example, etc.), to cite to summon up (all of ones energy, etc.) to arrest to nominate to give to offer up (incense, a prayer, etc.) to the gods (or Buddha, etc.) to bear (a child) to conduct (a ceremony, esp. a wedding) (of the tide) to come in to vomit to do for (the sake of someone else) to complete... to humbly do...

洗う

あらう

to wash to investigate

言う

いう ゆう

to say, to utter, to declare to name, to call to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"), to make a noise

居る

いる おる

to be (animate), to be, to exist verb indicating continuing action or state (i.e. to be..ing) indicates contempt or disdain for anothers actions

歌う

うたう

to sing to sing (ones praises in a poem, etc.), to compose a poem, to recite a poem

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