summer vacation; summer holiday
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already
training; practice; discipline; ascetic practices
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
leveling up; raising the level (of); boosting; improving; improvement; rising to the next level
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
yes; that is correct; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?
in this way; thus; such; uh...
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.)
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
second year of high school; second-year high-school student
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to begin; to start; to happen (again); to begin (anew); to date (from); to originate (in)
huh?; eh?; what?; oh; hey!; look!
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
difficult; hard; impossible; unfeasible; fussy; particular; gloomy
indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
what!; oh; what the heck; what the; damn
meaning; significance; sense
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
to stick; to get stuck; to be unavailable; to be busy; to be piled up (e.g. of work); to halt (in one's speech)
and; besides; because; since; the thing is; for one thing
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
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid
to get irritated; to get annoyed; to be on the edge; to fret; to lose patience
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
endurance; patience; perseverance; self-control; self-restraint
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
seems; I think; I guess; don't you agree?; I thought you'd say that!
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision
always; all the time; never; usual; regular
time; hour; period; class
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
a blink of time; (lit.) the time it takes to say "Ah!"
and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless