jpdb beta

to pollute; to contaminate; to soil; to disgrace; to dishonour; to dishonor

1

to polish up; to shine up

2

approximately; about; only; nothing but; just (finished, etc.)

1

bad; poor; poor (quality); inferior; evil; sinful; ugly

1

(flight of) stone steps; stone stairway

1

again; once more; also; too; on the other hand; while; and

2

to polish; to shine; to brush (e.g. teeth); to refine (e.g. a skill); to improve; to cultivate

1

don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...

1

right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?

30

worship (esp. Christian); adoration; divine service; worship (esp. Buddhist and Shinto)

4

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

10

although; despite; whereas; while; if only; I wish

1

smartly dressed; stylish; someone smartly dressed; to dress up; to be fashionable

1

strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance

1

hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo

30

always; all the time; never; usual; regular

1

clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.

3

yes; yeah; huh?; what?; not; 's

4

is not; am not; are not; isn't it?

3

(another's) daughter; young lady (of pampered upbringing); woman who has never known hardship; naive woman

5

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)

18

number one; first; best; most; game; round

4

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.

23

to put clothes on (someone); to dress; to cover; to coat; to pin (e.g. a crime on someone); to lay (blame)

1

to say; to speak; to tell; to talk

1

that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ...; given that ...

1

just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well...; I think...

6

how; in what way; why; for what reason; cannot possibly; no way

2

I wonder; do you think?; I might; some kind; some stage; somehow

2

cawing (of a crow)

2

aah!; ooh!; oh no!; oh boy!

1

to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)

4

hair (of the head)

1

crumpled; rumpled; to be annoyed; to be irritated; noisily (chewing)

1

tee-hee

3

hey; listen

2

I; me

17

this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence

4

small quantity; little; little while; short distance

1

to become thin; to lose weight; to reduce (one's) weight; to be barren; to be infertile; to be sterile

1

to be seen; to be in sight; to look; to seem; to come

3

oh; ah

2

what; you-know-what; that thing; whatsit; whachamacallit; (not) at all; (not) in the slightest

7

to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)

1

too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as

9

unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate

1

cruel; heartless; violent; intense; very bad; terrible

2

if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question

10

to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine

4

such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!

4