elder brother; big brother; one's senior; one's elder; old ingredients; stale ingredients
ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
yes; indeed; ha!; what?; huh?; sigh
phew; whew; huff; whoo; woohoo
umibōzu; sea yōkai, resembling a huge bald-headed black figure; sea monster; green turtle
Mr; Mrs; Miss; politeness marker
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
honorific/polite/humble prefix
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
to be (animate); to be; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed; to (have the audacity to) do
indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!
well, ...; right, ...; so; then; that way (would mean ...); if that is the case
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
please; kindly; by all means; certainly; here you are; to give
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
(social) position; status; standing; position (in a company, organization, etc.); post; rank
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
master; expert; brilliant move (in go, shogi, etc.); excellent move
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
simple; easy; uncomplicated; brief; quick; light
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
dazed and limp with pleasure (esp. sexual); ecstatically (panting)
a-ha-ha (laughing loudly)
what; you-know-what; that thing; whatsit; whachamacallit; penis; (one's) thing
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 make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
yes; yeah; huh?; what?; 's; of
I wonder; should I?; is it?; I wish that; I hope that
ordinary; common; free of charge; free; unaffected; as is