honorific/polite/humble prefix
uncle; old man; mister; manybar goatfish (Parupeneus multifasciatus)
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...
recently; lately; these days; nearest; closest
police; police officer; police station
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
trouble; burden; nuisance; care; dependence; support
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
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.)
yes; that is correct; um; errr; huh?; grrr
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
suffix for familiar person
reputation; respectability
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
bad; poor; poor (quality); inferior; evil; sinful; ugly
indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!
by no means; never!; something unexpected; emergency; (arch.) currently; (arch.) for the time being
subsection head; assistant manager; chief clerk
no; nay; well; er; you're welcome; not at all
really; truly; indeed; good grief
body; oneself; one's place; one's position; main part; meat (as opposed to bone, skin, etc.)
memory; sense; experience
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
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
as expected; sure enough; after all (is said and done); in the end; too; also
that child; that kid; that boy; (arch.) you
to enter; to go into; to break into; to join; to enroll; to contain; to hold
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
doing; in such a state; doing together; doing to each other; familiarizing suffix (sometimes meaning "small")
precisely; exactly; plumb; damn; stupid; cursed
person concerned; people involved (in an event); those concerned; staff
you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
all members; all hands; everyone; everybody; whole crew
inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)
it is, isn't it?; I know, right?; innit?
something; some; somehow; for some reason; (is there) something (you want, etc.)
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
adhesion; conglutination; collusion; collusive relationship
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...
house; one's house; one's home; one's family
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
entertainer (esp. boy band or girl group member) whose image is manufactured to cultivate a dedicated consumer fan following; Japanese idol; (cultural) icon; idol; idol (object of worship); image