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Compounds of 為

  • (vs-i) (uk) to do (literary form of suru)
  • (n) (1) good
    advantage
    benefit
    welfare
    (2) sake
    purpose
    objective
    aim
    (3) consequence
    result
    effect
    (4) affecting
    regarding
    concerning
    (P)
  • (v5s,vt) (1) to build up
    to establish
    (2) to form
    to become (a state)
    (3) to accomplish
    to achieve
    to succeed in
    (4) to change into
    (5) to do
    to perform
    (aux-v) (6) (arch) to intend to
    to attempt
    to try
    (7) (arch) to have a child
    (P)
  • (conj) (1) (uk) for
    for the sake of
    to one's advantage
    in favor of
    in favour of
    on behalf of
    (2) because of
    as a result of
  • (vs-i) (1) (uk) to do
    (2) to cause to become
    to make (into)
    to turn (into)
    (3) to serve as
    to act as
    to work as
    (4) to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
    (5) to judge as being
    to view as being
    to think of as
    to treat as
    to use as
    (6) to decide on
    to choose
    (vs-i,vi) (7) to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.)
    (8) to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
    (9) to be worth
    to cost
    (10) to pass (of time)
    to elapse
    (suf,vs-i) (11) verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")
    (aux-v,vs-i) (12) creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
    (13) to be just about to
    to be just starting to
    to try to
    to attempt to
    (P)
  • (v5r,vi) (1) (uk) to become
    to get
    to grow
    to be
    to reach
    to attain
    (2) to result in
    to prove to be
    (3) to consist of
    to be composed of
    (4) to succeed
    to be complete
    (5) to change into
    to be exchanged for
    (6) to play a role
    (7) to be promoted (shogi)
  • (n) act
    action
    deed
  • (n) exchange bank
  • (n) (1) doer
    performer
    (2) (uk) protagonist (in noh or kyogen)
    hero
    leading part
    main character
  • (n) (1) hereditary disposition
    temperament
    nature
    (2) (arch) body build
  • (n) governing
    administering
  • (n) state of affairs
    predicament
  • (n) (1) money order
    draft
    (2) exchange (e.g. foreign)
    (P)
  • (n) livery
    servant's clothes provided by employers
  • (n) way of doing
  • (n,vs) sayings and doings
    words and deeds
  • (n) business
    occupation
  • (n) foreign exchange
  • (n) daring
  • (n) act
    deed
    conduct
    (P)
  • (n,vs) (1) artificiality
    (2) act
    commission (of a crime)
  • (n) (obsc) act
    deed
    one's doing
  • (n) (uk) cause
    reason
    fault
    (P)
  • (n,adj-no) human work
    human agency
    art
    artificiality
    (P)
  • (n) providential
    natural
  • (n) needing to be done
    requiring a response
  • (adj-na,n) disadvantageous
    harmful
    unprofitable
  • (adj-na,n,adj-no) idleness
    inactivity
    (P)
  • (n) (Buddh) perpetual change caused by karma
    vicissitudes of life
    that which is made
  • (adj-na,n) capable
    able
    talented
    promising