planning; plan; project; arrangements
to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...; wow
feeling startled; getting a shock; prank; practical joke
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
they; those guys; those fellows
nature; spontaneity; natural airhead
and; besides; because; since; the thing is; for one thing
interesting; fascinating; amusing; funny; enjoyable; fun
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
what type of thing; which one
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well ...; I think ...
all over; filled in; complete; total; clichéd; hackneyed; plaintext
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
yes; yeah; huh?; what?; 's; of
(member of the) yakuza; gangster; hoodlum; racketeer; useless; worthless
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
intrusion; bursting into; barging into; breaking into; forcing one's way into
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that ...
ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.); Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
to hide; to conceal oneself; to disappear (behind); to be hidden (by); to live in seclusion; to retire (from the world)
flavor; flavour; charm; appeal; experience; taste (e.g. of victory)
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
establishment (of a business); founding
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
curry (esp. Japanese curry); rice and curry
to go; to come; to lose; to be defeated; to be stumped (by); to be at a loss; to visit (a shrine, grave, etc.)
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
liking; being fond of; liking (romantically); being in love with; faddism; eccentricity
liking very much; loving (something or someone); adoring; being very fond of
unchanged (from long ago); as it was in the past; same old; traditional
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that