Mr; master; Ms; miss; (arch.) sir; (arch.) madam
fortune-telling; divination; fortune-teller; diviner
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
joint party (e.g. by students from several colleges); combined party; mixer; two or more groups, esp. female and male students, combining for a party
first place; first rank; units position (of a number)
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
please (give me); please (do for me)
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
come (on); come now; all right; right; well; hmm
the other day; lately; recently; meanwhile; in the meantime
type; style; mold; mould; kata (set sequence of positions and movements in martial arts); style (in kabuki, noh, etc.); convention
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
serious; not joking; straight; (arch.) cannot; (arch.) should not; (arch.) will not
to be saved; to be rescued; to escape harm; to be spared damage; to be helped; to be saved trouble
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
considerable; great; important; significant; a big deal
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about
a matter of course; what is to be expected; par for the course
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 do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
after all; because; but; even; too; as well
two persons; two people; pair; couple
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
exchange; interchange; switching; reciprocity; barter; substitution
eh?; what?; yes; that's correct; used for soft emphasis or to soften a statement or request; (arch.) strengthens a question, assertion, etc.
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
abruptly; suddenly; all of a sudden; without warning
such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!
never mind that; don't worry about that; listen up
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...
soon; before long; slowly; quietly; already; about time
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that