green willow (i.e. one that has budded); meat of the trough shell (Mactra chinensis)
monitoring; watching; observation; surveillance; guarding; supervision
government service; the bureaucracy
please (give me); please (do for me)
yes; indeed; ha!; what?; huh?; sigh
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
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
medicine; pharmaceuticals; efficacious chemical (gunpowder, pesticide, etc.); (pottery) glaze; (illegal) drug; narcotic
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
you (plural); all of you; you all
hue; color phase; colour phase
muddiness; murkiness; impurity; Japanese voiced consonant mark; unrefined sake
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 keep within limits (e.g. spending); to restrain (e.g. emotions); to control; to hold back (e.g. an enemy); to check; to curb
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that
coincident with; while; simultaneously
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
real feeling; actual feeling; to actually feel; to have a real feeling (that ...); to experience personally
to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal
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
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
lie; falsehood; fiction; fabrication
healing; soothing; therapy; comfort; solace
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
release; unleashing; liberation; deallocation (of computer memory)
like; similar to; as with; in the same way
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to suit the convenience of; to accommodate
to put; to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire
loss; damage; harm; disadvantage; handicap; drawback
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
adds force or indicates command
Ministry of Health and Welfare (now Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare)
also; too; not ... either; (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise
recommendation; putting in a good word for someone
to do for (someone); to take in; to deceive; to hoodwink
so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already
fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
eleventh month of the lunar calendar
without change; as is; just like; extremely similar; immediately; just after
parliamentarian; member of a congress
taking (a suspect to the police); dragging (someone) away
request; favour (to ask); wish; please
hearing (of a statement, opinion, explanation, etc.); asking; questioning (e.g. a suspect); listening (e.g. to the radio)