car; automobile; vehicle; wheel; castor; caster
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
brake; (a) stop (to a development, behavior, etc.); (the) brakes
sound; noise; (musical) note; fame
crash; smash; crunch; bang
nee-naw (sound of an emergency vehicle siren); wee-woo
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
disliking; not wanting; unpleasant; disagreeable; no!; quit it!
dream; dream; hope; unrealistic aspiration; daydream; delusion
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
to wake up; to awake; to awaken to (instinct, ability, perception, etc.); to become aware of; to come to one's senses
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
operation; management; handling; manipulating (to one's benefit); manipulation; influencing
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
woman; female; female lover; girlfriend; mistress
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
what kind of; what sort of; what; no matter what (kind of); whatever; any
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
staying up late; sitting up late at night; keeping late hours
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
always; all the time; never; usual; regular
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
than; rather than; instead of; from; out of; except
previously; before; first; before (something or someone else); beforehand; in advance
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed
already; previously; before; undeniably; unmistakably
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 start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...
kendo; Japanese martial art using bamboo swords
department (in an organization, company, etc.); division; club (at a school, university, etc.); team; part; portion
morning training (e.g. before school)
after all; because; but; even; too; as well
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
what; you-know-what; that thing; whatsit; whachamacallit; penis; (one's) thing
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; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
(conductor's) baton; beat; measure
suffix appended to someone else's family members
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
midterm (mid-semester) test or exam
to end; to come to an end; to finish; to complete; to finish doing; to be past its (one's) prime