telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
promise; agreement; convention; rule; destiny; fate
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
restaurant (esp. Western-style)
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
interval; period of time; among; between; good opportunity; chance
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
myself; yourself; I; me; you
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
willpower; guts; determination; character; nature; disposition
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to cry; to weep; to sob; to howl
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
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.
distinction; difference; separate; different; exception; exclusion
direction; district; area; field (e.g. of study); sphere; quarter
to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
holiday; day off; furlough; absence (from work)
that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so
ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
to make a mess of; to sacrifice; to waste
to be lucky; to be in luck; to be attached; to have; to be included
-ing and -ing (e.g. "coming and going"); doing such things as...; expresses a command; (arch.) to be; (arch.) indicates completion or continuation of an action
existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have
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.)
long (distance, length); long (time); protracted; prolonged
matter of hit-and-miss; mix of success and failure; variation (in quality, returns, etc.)
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
you; you bastard; you son of a bitch; (arch.) you
what; you-know-what; that thing; whatsit; whachamacallit; (not) at all; (not) in the slightest
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very