Godan verbs that look like Ichidan verbs. These are verbs that end in iru or eru but don’t conjugate in the regular fashion.
-eru
| aseru | to hurry |
| azakeru | to ridicule |
| daberu | to chatter |
| eru | to carve |
| eru | to choose |
| eru | to ridicule |
| fukeru | to be absorbed in |
| fuseru | to hide, to lie in ambush |
| haberu | to attend on |
| heru | to humble oneself |
| heru | to decrease |
| hineru | to twist |
| hirugaeru | to turn over, to wave |
| hoderu | (?) |
| hoteru | to feel hot |
| kaeru | to return |
| kaeru | to turn over |
| kaeru | to be hatched |
| kageru | to become cloudy |
| kakeru | to soar |
| keru | to kick |
| kuneru | to be crooked |
| kutugaeru | to be overturned |
| meru | to decrease |
| nameru | (?) |
| neru | to temper |
| neru | to refine |
| neru | to knead |
| nomeru | to fall forward |
| numeru | to be slippery |
| omoneru | to flatter |
| seru | to compete |
| seseru | to pick, to play with |
| shaberu | to talk, to chat |
| shigeru | to grow thick |
| shikeru | to be damp, to be moist |
| shimeru | to be wet, to become wet |
| soberu | to lie sprawled |
| suberu | to slip |
| takeru | to act violently |
| teru | to shine |
| tsumeru | (???) |
| tsuneru | to pinch |
| uneru | to undulate |
| useru | to root with the nose |
| yomigaeru | to rise from the dead |
-iru
| aburagiru | to be greasy |
| bibiru | to be surprised |
| chigiru | to pledge |
| chiru | to scatter |
| dojiru | to mess up |
| guchiru | to grumble |
| hairu | to enter |
| hashiru | to run |
| hiru | to winnow |
| hojiru | to pick, to dig out |
| hotobashiru | to gush, to spurt |
| ibiru | to torment, to roast |
| ijiru | to fiddle with |
| ikiru | to become sultry |
| iru | to boil down |
| iru | to go in |
| iru | to need |
| iru | to roast |
| kagiru | to limit |
| kajiru | to knaw, to have a smattering of (knowledge) |
| kiru | to become misty |
| kiru | to cut |
| kishiru | to become misty |
| kishiru | to squeak, to creak |
| kojiru | to gouge, to wrench |
| kubiru | to grip, to strangle |
| kujiru | to gouge, to scoop |
| mairu | to come, to go (humble) |
| majiru | to mingle |
| meiru | to feel depressed |
| mikubiru | to underrate, to belittle |
| minagiru | to overflow |
| mogiru | to wrench |
| mojiru | to parody, to twist |
| mushiru | to pluck, to pick, to tear |
| najiru | to rebuke |
| nejiru | to twist |
| nigiru | to grasp |
| nijiru | to edge forward |
| nonoshiru | to abuse verbally |
| ochiiru | to fall, to sink |
| omoiiru | to ponder, to contemplate |
| omoikiru | to resign to fate, to despair |
| sebiru | to pester for |
| shiru | to know |
| soshiru | to slander |
| sujiru | to wriggle |
| tagiru | to seethe |
| tamagiru | to be frightened |
| tobashiru | to gush |
| tochiru | to fumble |
| yajiru | to jeer at |
| yogiru | to pass by, to drop in |
| yojiru | to twist, to distort |
| yokogiru | to cross, to traverse |
(taken from Collin’s Notes)
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