honorific/polite/humble prefix
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
July; seventh month of the lunar calendar
24th day of the month; 24 days
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
depression; melancholy; dejection; gloom; despondency
canary (esp. the island canary, Serinus canaria)
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.
release (of a film, product, etc.); publication; release; liberation; release (of a previously pressed mouse button)
Alice; Alliss; Alyce; Arisu
Mr; Mrs; Miss; politeness marker
story; tale; talk; discussion
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.)
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
to be able to do; to be possible; to be good at; to do well; to come into existence; to form; to be made
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
yes; that is correct; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?
various; a variety of; variously; in various ways; various things; this and that
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
number one; first; best; most; game; round
liking; being fond of; liking (romantically); being in love with; faddism; eccentricity
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
one-pot meal of green onions and tuna
of all (things, people, places, days, etc.)
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
pope's nose; parson's nose; meat from around the coccyx of a chicken
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
authority; expert; counter for messages, letters, notes, documents, etc.; understanding (esp. of male-female relations); tact; supernatural powers
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt; sentence-ending particle expressing a rhetorical question
what's the matter?; what's wrong?; what happened (to) ...?; what have you done (with) ...?; where is ...?