third (base, baseman, gear)
play ball!; starting a match (of baseball, tennis, etc.)
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
is something wrong?; what's wrong?; what's the matter?; slightest; mere; trivial
warehouse; storehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown
table; chart; list; memorial to an emperor
new rice field; newly developed rice field; wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)
head start; initiative; preemption
to go out to meet; to receive; to welcome; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to call for; to summon
(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely
to be disconnected; to get out of place; to miss the mark; to get it wrong (e.g. guess, expectation); to be removed; to be excluded
count; counting; count of balls and strikes; count (after a knock-down in boxing); count (of radioactivity)
autograph; signature; sign; signal; indication
to nod; to bow one's head in assent; to agree
eager; earnest; strenuous; fervent; assiduous; with utmost effort
to paw (at) the ground; to struggle (using one's arms and legs); to flounder; to struggle (to escape an adverse situation); to strive
hitting (a ball with a bat, racket, golf club, etc.); batting; batted ball; struck ball
middle; centre; center; midpoint; heart
to save; to rescue; to help; to assist; to support (financially); to contribute (to)
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
to jump; to leap; to break up; to close; to hit (e.g. to have a car hit something or someone)
poor; pitiable; pathetic; pitiful
senior high school student
approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like
to be saved; to be rescued; to escape harm; to be spared damage; to be helped; to be saved trouble
have no choice; there is nothing but; no more than
guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper
call; summons; usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (arch.) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (arch.) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (arch.) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period)
to say; to tell; to state; to do
invulnerability; immortality; insensibility to pain
Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
telephone call; telephone (device)
front; frontage; facade; main
entrance; entry; gate; approach; mouth
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside
wind; breeze; manner; behaviour; cold; influenza
to go; to come; to be defeated; to collapse; to be annoyed; to be nonplussed
alternation; change; relief; relay; shift; substitution (sports, etc.)
sorry; excuse me; thank you