Raising up from your humble self (or someone you identify with) to your exalted recipient… NB the direction of the action, since it would be uncouth to place yourself in the “exalted” recipient position.

上げる can have a bit of a vibe of doing the person you are gifting to a favour, so it’s best to use when talking about giving to people who are approximately social peers and NOT superiors like your boss.

That’s why 差し上げる is more appropriate when crossing a status disparity, e.g. if you’re a service worker and (humbly) offering to give a sample to your client.

上がる (agaru) : the subject rises, improves, or completes on its own or naturally.
(The sunrise, getting out of water, getting a promotion)

上げる (ageru) : the subject actively causes something to rise, improve, or complete.
(Tying hair, raising arm, enrolling in classes)

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上がる suits natural changes; 上げる implies deliberate action.

与える - more literary in usage and formal

やる - more colloquial in usage and not polite compared to the other 2, used towards someone below you in status

上げる - more colloquial in usage, more polite than やる

"ageru", I think of the first three letter "age" as english "age", always going up but never decreasing (going down).

you use this verb if you give someone something he will be happy about. for example if your friend needs a sleeping place, and you GIVE him a sleeping place, then you use あげる

ageru sounds like "Augur" which is a device used to raise material

Concoct: Mix 捏つ up 上げる (deliberately)
See also 捏造/ねつぞう

When you argue (ageru) you raise your voice

I found an agate and I raised it in the air to show everyone!

AGERU-culture (agriculture) grows/rises overtime

When using ~てあげる:
When speaking directly to the person you’re giving/doing a favor to, be cautious. It might come across as condescending.
It's because it implies : " I'm doing you a favor. "
It can feel like you're putting yourself above them.

Oh, Ross could you take that of the shelf for me? I'm too small

Can be used as "assign", especially in the case of 宿題 を 出す (shukudai wo dasu; to assign homework)

And just a dash (dasu) of pepper... Too much! Take some out!

Take out (だす) the dashi broth (だし) from those AdiDASU (アディダス) sneakers! They’re all soggy and smelly enough as it is!

That's (だす) enough, take it out.

おもい (思い): thought
だす (出す): to take out

so omoi+dasu literally means "to take your thought out".

I like to imagine the scene from SpongeBob, little spongebobs panick racking his brain drawers for the recipe.

Remove the dashi from this soup! There’s too much!

dasu too much! Take some out.

Imagine you’re cleaning and need to take out the dust from your room.

The word "dust" sounds like "dasu," helping you remember that 出す means "to take out" or "to put out."

I did some digging into the ethymology of this word, along with a teacher explaining to me what it means and it's somewhat interesting.
The word is originally made up of the honorific prefix お and the kanji 中, if you think about it, how is one polite way to talk about one's inside (中)? Yep, that's おなか, which is now better known as お腹.
Prefix お／ご doesn't necesseraly make all words attached to it more polite, it also creates new ones, like it's the case here!

胃袋 is used mostly in a figurative sense. It treats the stomach as a “food bag” and often refers to appetite or eating capacity, as in 胃袋が大きい or 胃袋をつかむ. It’s not the normal anatomical term.

胃 is the literal anatomical stomach. It’s what you use for medical contexts or when referring specifically to the organ itself, such as 胃が痛い or 胃炎.

腹 refers to the belly or abdomen in a broad sense and also carries many idiomatic and emotional meanings, such as 腹が立つ or 腹を決める. It can describe hunger (腹が減った) and feels more blunt or old-fashioned than お腹.

お腹 is the everyday, polite word for the stomach or belly. It’s the default in normal conversation for physical sensations (お腹が痛い, お腹がすいた) and has no rough nuance.

お腹の調子が悪い is a euphemism for “I have diarrhoea”. In a phrase like this おなか specifically refers to lower abdomen, use い (の調子) instead to refer to upper abdomen/stomach

なか (中) also means 'inside', which can be thought of synomynmously with stomach because it's inside of your body

For anyone that watches One Piece, Luffy always says おなかがすいた！which means I am hungry. Just try to remember the first part everytime he says it

living in いなか (田舎 country) - feeding your おなか (tummy)

If you own a car おなか then you pick up food to fill your stomach.

I put my *BELLY* On A Car (おなか）- it just feels nice.

The *countryside* (いなか) is truly the stomach (おなか) of the country, right in the middle!

Did MONET also paint ladies with their breast exposed?

My chest (むね) is full of love for ships (船/ふね).

Each side of his/her chest/breast is as round as a MOON.

背中　When looking at someone from behind (背) the whole middle (中) of their height (背) is their back. (背中)

Back: stature (as in strong posture) + center.

SAY, i KNOCKED a bone in my *back* out of place when i fell

SENAKA (Seneca Wallace) was a BACKup quarterback

No (の) beer (びる) today. Only stretching and good relax time.

If you get のびる (to stretch) and のぼる (to climb) mixed up, remember nob*I*ru has a stretched out I in it, while nob*O*ru has a big O to climb over.

You gotta stretch before climbing/NOBoRU a tall building/BIRU. It's a lengthy process.

Noble のびる have to stretch after a hard day of saving people

Picture a cartoon guru (ぐる) doing a funny, dramatic spin during meditation or a dance.

The cat's (め) went (ぐるぐる) as I waved the toy AROUND IN CIRCLES.

目 (め) で 見る (みる、1)
耳 (みみ) で 聞く、聴く (きく、0)
鼻 (はな) で 嗅ぐ (かぐ、0)
口 (くち) で 話す (はなす、2)
手 (て) で 触る (さわる、0)

Take my hand

Your hands have Ten (て) fingers.

Reach your 手 out and touch the cat's 毛

I decided to て-ke his *hand* and put て-mpura in it.
手 — looks a bit like fish skeleton, right?

UN DOU trois and jump....two three...that's how we stay in motion.

Exercise to undo (うんどう) a sedentary life.

Being carried (運) by movement (動) keeps you fit!

If you get too fat, you gotta exercise a lot to undo(u) that

Umm (うん) do (どう) I want to exercise today?

"Undo" sounds like "undō".

Imagine deciding to undo your laziness by engaging in exercise, linking the sound of "undō" to its meaning "exercise" or "physical activity".

¡I'm on(うん) the road (どう) exercising!

Exercise is carried 運 movement 動 !

Your destiny 運命 is to exercise 運 動 with the animals 動物

Progressive 運 movement 動.

Pitch accent: う／んどう

You need to be in good からだ if you wanna fight からて🥋

If you eat a lot of サラダ you will have a healthy からだ

(for the kanji) If you cut down the tree someone was resting under (休む), you will be left with nothing but a body.

People in カナダ have healthy からだ

サラダ is good for your からだ
(Salad is good for your body)

体/からだ is also written as 身体, but 身体 can also be read as しんたい, which is more academic/formal and しんたい only means the body of humans/large animals.
Credit: [japanese.stackexchange.com]

The Kanji looks like an old fashioned TV, something you'd sit in front of.

I keep my (まえ) things in front of me.

Before in front of me is Mae

When meeting someone for the first time, you introduce your name (なまえ) in front of them before (まえ) you talk about anything else.

Think of a selfish person saying "MY (まえ) needs come BEFORE anyone else's!"

why is MY (ま) EAR (え) in FRONT of my face?? It should be on the side :(

I have to go through my (ま) (え) entrance in the front of my house before I get to the rest

Imagine someone saying: “May I (mae) eat?” but only before the meal starts.

Look! There is a cow (うし) behind the rock (ろ）

"Ushiro" sounds like "ooh, she row".

Imagine someone rowing a boat, and you’re sitting behind her, saying, "Ooh, she row from the back!"

USHER, O usher… you’ve got some popcorn stuck to your rear.

うし looks like two people lied back to back

Ooh (う), what's that BEHIND the castle (しろ)?

In Italian "ushire" means going out. And you always go out from behind.

There is a roll (ろ) of toilet paper trailing behind his tushy (うし)

Ooh (う) she (し) has a ROund (ろ) behind.

Uuh, she wrong (うしろ) for talking behind your “back”.

The wool yOU SHEER Off (yうしろff) of a sheep is towards its rear

There is a cow (うし) behind you, it's white (しろ)

The baby had one *foot/leg* out during the delivery and the father yelled out "it's a she!" (あし). Even the doctor was surprised he could tell by the foot

My ashi hurts so I go to the isha

"Ah shi!" sounds like something you'd say if you stepped your *foot* in something gross.

AH, SHE (あし) is into FEET.

Why is your foot so ashy?

You hashi(ru) with your ashi!

Ah she (足) broke her LEG. Now she has a dysfunctional GAIT.

One fairly common money-related idiomatic expression is 足が出る — meaning "to exceed the budget" or "to have a secret revealed".
Bonus: It's related to sense 7. and words like お足.

伸ばす for
1. Making something longer. Ex. growing your nails, extending a route.
2. Making something straight. Ex. straightening your back or smoothing a wrinkle.
3. Increasing things like power/momentum. Ex. extending one's influence or power.

延ばす for
1. Making the time of something later. Postponing something. Ex. extending a deadline or departure time.
2. Adding to something already existing such as a route to make it longer (伸ばす also OK for this).

GROWing your hair and nails long is no excuse for taking NO BATH

to flatten out

My car grew longer (yes, it is alive) but it is still nobasu (no bus)

NOBARA from JJK grows long (NOBASU) nails to attack her enemies with.

You can grow your hair long if you have NO BOSSU

Weird, that shampoo has a knob.

On the notice, it's written:
"If you turn the knob as のばす fast as you can, your hair will grow long instantly".

I turned the knob. Su.ddenly 伸ばす, my hair grew long, aka they extended 伸

I know it's not "kin" as in gold, but thinking of muscle as "golden meat" makes me laugh.

King (きん) size meat (にく) bowl for me please, muscles need some proteins!

King's 肉 にく are muscles

Anime fans may remember Kinnikuman (キン肉マン), the wrestling manga/anime/toy series localized as Ultimate Muscle or M.U.S.C.L.E. in North America.

Often used as the "Are you sure you want to quit?" confirmation popup on video games

Are you shuuryou (sure you) want to quit the game?

This week 週 (しゅう) my cooking 料理 (りょうり) classes end.

お Honorific prefix
疲れ（つかれ）Tiredness/Fatigue
様（さま）Honorific suffix

Lit. “You must be tired (and I respect that).”

Instead of praising the result, Japanese people often acknowledge the effort.

It’s not used for customers or superiors in formal customer service!

What you say at the end of the work day or after an arduous task. Alternatively, it's also a workplace greeting, but おはようございます is better in the morning.

I've heard that you add です to the end if the work was not joint or collaborated with you. Add でした if you did collaborate with them.