hoarse voice / voice with an accent / voice with an unappealing thick, rumbling quality

(grammar) a verbal conjugation class consisting of five alternating bases: -a, -i, -u, -e, and -o

(Classical Japanese grammar) a verbal conjugation class consisting of four alternating bases: -a, -i, -u, and -e

(grammar) an abbreviation for 上二段活用; upper dual grade conjugation

(grammar) Short for 上一段活用 (kami ichidan katsuyō): upper monograde conjugation

(grammar) Short for 下二段活用 (shimo nidan katsuyō): lower bigrade conjugation

(grammar) The Classical Japanese bigrade verb conjugation class, consisting of the two subclasses of 上(かみ)二(に)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう) (kami nidan katsuyō, “upper-bigrade conjugation”) and 下(しも)二(に)段(だん)活(かつ)用(よう) (shimo nidan katsuyō, “lower-bigrade conjugation”)

(linguistics, uncommon) trigrade conjugation / (informal) 3-step process

(archaic, possibly obsolete) a kind of beriberi (vitamin B deficiency) causing swelling of the lower leg / (archaic, possibly obsolete) a predicament

used in response to a failure or mistake: dang, shoot, darn it