Kyūjitai form of 私生児 (“illegitimate child”)

(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) 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

You should treasure every encounter, for it will never recur.

vicissitudes, the way that the world or a person prospers one day and declines the next

dotting the i's and crossing the t's

successive series of questions and responses