offender; criminal; culprit
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
ordinary; common; free of charge; unaffected; as is; only
to watch steadily; to stare
rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)
to cease; to stop; to be over
at last; finally; barely; narrowly; just
conviction; belief; confidence
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
modus operandi; criminal technique; trick
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example
as expected; predictably; not surprisingly
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
both; both sides; both parties
to seize; to catch; to obtain; to acquire; to understand; to grasp
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
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.
to kill; to slay; to suppress; to block; to suppress (a voice, feelings, etc.); to hold back
to catch; to capture; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street); towards (someone); at (someone)
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah
plane crash; fall (accident)
item; heading; category; headword (in a dictionary, encyclopedia, etc.); entry
also; too; not ... either; (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
composite; combined; complex
-ical; -ive; -like; -ish; (something) like; along the lines of
coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency
to be piled up; to lie on top of one another; to come one after another; to happen over and over; to overlap (each other); to occur at the same time
outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state
et cetera; etc.; or something; the likes of; for example; for instance
person concerned; people involved (in an event); those concerned; staff