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
to drink; to gulp; to smoke (tobacco); to engulf; to overwhelm; to keep down; to suppress
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
skillful; skilful; delicious; appetizing; fortunate; splendid
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
very much; exceedingly; extremely
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
flavor; flavour; charm; appeal; experience; taste (e.g. of victory)
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well...; I think...
in that way; thus; so; so?
seems; I think; I guess; don't you agree?; I thought you'd say that!
in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all
three-cornered hat; tricorne
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
place; location; room; space; basho; wrestling tournament
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
ordinary; common; free of charge; unaffected; as is; only
rumour; rumor; report; hearsay; gossip; common talk
conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation
it is not (like that) either
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
breath; sign (of something new and fresh); breath (of spring, fresh air, etc.); vitality
plot of land; lot; soil; locality; region; place
a considerable number; a fair number
to live; to get along; to spend (time)
be supposed or expected to (do); be sure to (do); ought to (do)
to discover; to find (e.g. an error in a book); to locate; to find (e.g. something missing); to be used to seeing; to be familiar with
grasp; catch; understanding
record; minutes; record (e.g. in sports); results; to record; to document
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
by the way; in this connection; incidentally; in passing
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays