to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate
honorific/polite/humble prefix
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
request; favour (to ask); wish; please
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
to pass (of time); to elapse
to change; to be transformed; to move to; to be different; to be uncommon
lively; full of spirit; energetic; healthy; well; fit
appearing that; seeming that; looking like; having the appearance of
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 (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
truth; reality; proper; right; genuine; authentic
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
it seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)
to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)
quite; entirely; completely; as if; as though; just like
to fling; to throw off (clothes); to kick off (boots)
perhaps; possibly; by some chance; by some possibility
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
12 signs of the Chinese zodiac
yikes!; eek!; ook; eek; customer
what's the matter?; what's wrong?; what happened (to) ...?; what have you done (with) ...?; where is ...?
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
something; some; somehow; for some reason; (is there) something (you want, etc.)
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
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
eh?; what?; yes; that's correct; (arch.) strengthens a question, assertion, etc.; (arch.) hey
damn; damn it; feces; excrement; damn; damned; very
soon; shortly; before long; nearly; almost
to be transparent; to leave a gap
yes; yeah; huh?; what?; not; 's
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo