at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
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 finish; to stop; to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to put away; to put back
water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; flood; floodwaters; water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout
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
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
smell of something rotten; rotten smell
marsh; swamp; wetland; being hooked (on a video game, TV show, etc.)
one-by-one; separately; every single; each and every; without omission
to like; to love; to be fond of
place; location; room; space; basho; wrestling tournament
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet
two persons; two people; pair; couple
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
what; you-know-what; that thing; whatsit; whachamacallit; (not) at all; (not) in the slightest
wrong; not good; hopeless; past hope; must not do
as is; as it is; as things are; like this; this way; at this rate
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
you; presence (of a god, nobleman, etc.)
attack; assault; raid; criticism; censure; denunciation
et cetera; etc.; or something; the likes of; for example; for instance
to be effective; to take effect; to work; to function well; to be possible (to do, use, etc.); to be able to
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
death; decease; (arch.) death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation); (an) out
sign; mark; symbol; sign (e.g. positive, negative)
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to mix with; to be mixed; to be mingled
living person; the living
understanding; comprehension; appreciation; sympathy
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
what kind of; what sort of; what; no matter what (kind of); whatever; any
to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
unthinkable; unimaginable; terrible; awful; (arch.) very