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
 life;  life force;  lifetime;  lifespan;  most important thing;  foundation
 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 receive;  to get;  to eat;  to drink;  to be crowned with;  to wear (on one's head)
 at (place, time);  in;  to (direction, state);  toward;  for (purpose);  because of (reason);  for
 to come (spatially or temporally);  to approach;  to come back;  to do ... and come back;  to come to be;  to become
 honorific/polite/humble prefix
 depending on;  as soon as;  immediately after;  as (e.g. "as one is told", "as one wishes");  whatever (e.g. "whatever is at hand");  order;  program
 at;  in;  at;  when;  by;  with;  and then
 indicates sentence topic;  indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated);  adds emphasis
 right?;  isn't it?;  hey;  say;  you know;  you see;  will you?
 period;  epoch;  the times;  those days;  oldness;  ancientness
 to mark the end;  to spell the end
 human being;  human;  person;  character (of a person)
 release;  unleashing;  liberation;  deallocation (of computer memory)
 storm;  tempest;  uproar;  hullabaloo;  storm (e.g. of protest)
 indicates sentence subject (occasionally object);  indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions);  but;  however;  regardless of;  whether (or not)
 year;  counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school);  period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
 throughout;  over a period of ...;  over a span of ...
 to blow violently;  to sweep over;  to devastate
 to cross over;  to cross;  to pass through;  to exceed;  to surpass;  to be more (than)
 seven;  seven years of age;  four o'clock (old time system)
 weeding out;  elimination (e.g. of unneeded employees);  culling;  selection (e.g. natural selection)
 and;  and then;  thus;  and now;  and finally
 now;  the present time;  just now;  another;  more
 the end;  the extremity;  the limit;  the limits;  the result
 country;  state;  region;  national government;  central government;  home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.)  province (of Japan)
 Qin dynasty (of China; 221-207 BCE);  Ch'in dynasty
 from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity);  since;  from (originator);  by;  because;  since;  out of (constituent, part)
 to give birth;  to bear (child);  to lay (eggs);  to produce;  to yield;  to give rise to
 to try to ...;  to be about to do ...;  to decide to ...;  to take as;  to treat as;  to use for;  to suppose that (such) is the case
 this;  this one;  this person;  now;  this point (in time);  here;  used to stress the subject of a sentence
 to live through;  to survive
 name;  given name;  title;  fame;  renown;  pretext
 too;  also;  both A and B;  A as well as B;  even;  as much as
 -less;  lacking;  non-existing
 boy;  juvenile;  young boy;  youth;  lad
 if;  when;  and;  with;  used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.);  promoted pawn;  indicates a question
 young person;  youth;  young
 king;  ruler;  tycoon;  magnate;  king (of the senior player)