day; days; sun; sunshine; (the) day; daytime; date
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
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
the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to let fly; to make fly; to skip over; to leave out; to run fast; to drive fast; to spray
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
as it is; as one likes; because; condition; state
to struggle; to writhe; to wriggle; to act frantically; to make desperate efforts
to continue; to keep up; to keep on
such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!
present condition; existing state; status quo; current state
deadlock; stalemate; impasse; dead end
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 feel; to sense; to experience
one part; one portion; one section; one copy (e.g. of a document)
head of a ward; mayor of a ward; chief administrator of a ward
release; unleashing; liberation; deallocation (of computer memory)
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
to plan; to plot; to attempt (e.g. suicide, murder); to undertake (e.g. business); (arch.) to stand on tip-toes
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
chief (of police); head (of office)
death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
to invite; to ask; to beckon; to wave someone in; to call in; to send for
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
Shibuya, a special ward in Tokyo
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
two persons; two people; pair; couple
to lose; to miss (a change, opportunity); to lose (a loved one); to be bereaved of; to concede (goals, points, etc.)
now; the present time; just now; another; more
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
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
yes; that is correct; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?
this way; this direction; here; this (one); I; me