delicious; tasty; sweet; attractive; appealing; convenient
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to cook (grains, e.g. rice); to boil; to simmer; to stew
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
suffix for familiar person
point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead
to enter; to go into; to break into; to join; to enroll; to contain; to hold
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
scale (of fish, snake, etc.); serif (on kana or kanji (e.g. in Mincho font))
Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
above ground; on the ground; earth's surface; this world; this earth
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
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
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
to dive (into or under water); to get under; to get into; to hide oneself (esp. from the government); to conceal oneself
and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless
to curse; to put a curse on; to detest intensely
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at
you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
great teacher (i.e. a buddha, bodhisattva or high monk, esp. Kobo Daishi)
somewhere; anywhere; in some respects
be supposed or expected to (do); be sure to (do); ought to (do)
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
where; what place; how much (long, far); what extent
to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!
dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris); squealer; rat; loser; asshole; counterfeit
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...
cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom; submissive partner of a homosexual relationship
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
(plain) hot water; boiled water