fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet
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.)
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
adds force or indicates command
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah
excuse me; pardon me; I'm sorry; thank you
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
important; serious; valuable; precious; serious matter; major incident
what; you-know-what; that thing; whatsit; whachamacallit; (not) at all; (not) in the slightest
what's the matter?; what's wrong?; what happened (to) ...?; what have you done (with) ...?; where is ...?
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 pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
bat (in baseball, cricket, etc.)
boy; juvenile; young boy; youth; lad
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that
last night; yesterday evening
to claim victims; to leave casualties
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
beginning; outset; first; onset
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
odour; odor; scent; aura; whiff; smacks of ...
to feel; to sense; to experience
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
crime; criminal act; offence; offense
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
even more; still more; further
connection; link; relationship
to be seen; to be in sight; to look; to seem; to come
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style
yes; that is correct; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole