to be among the top five; to be one of the five best
seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...
indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!
Eh?; What?; Come on!; Damn!
easy; simple; there's no way that ...
to scratch; to perspire; to shovel; to paddle
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
idiot; moron; trivial matter; folly; stupid; foolish
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
messy; confused; chaotic; complaining about various things
fly (any insect of infraorder Muscomorpha); person of no worth; pisher; scrub
dregs; sediment; lees (esp. sake); leftovers; by-product; worthless item; junk
to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted
one-by-one; separately; every single; each and every; without omission
to keep company; to listen to; to associate with; to play against (e.g. a team); to take on (e.g. a rival)
all members; all hands; everyone; everybody; whole crew
to kill; to slay; to suppress; to block; to suppress (a voice, feelings, etc.); to hold back
to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)
to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)
to drag down; to pull down; to force out (of power, office, role, etc.)
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
to gather; to collect; to assemble
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
oh!; good heavens!; ugh!; oh no!; ah!; the penny drops!
opposite side; other side; over there; that way; the other party; the other person
pipsqueak; little runt; midget; dwarf
to be able to manage somehow or another
secret plan; secret scheme; secret stratagem; secret method
thousand years; many years
usual; normal; everyday; usually; normally; generally
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
food; foodstuff; eating; appetite; meal; portion
these guys; these fellows
tension; mental strain; nervousness
always; all the time; never; usual; regular
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such