to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
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
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
very; awfully; exceedingly; (not) at all; by no means; simply (cannot)
ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah
Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
hm; um; huh?; what?; nuh-uh; no
yes?; no?; isn't it?; is it?
truth; reality; truly; really; absolute truth
hmm; well ...; humph; roughly; harshly; violently
to dance (orig. a hopping dance)
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
honorific/polite/humble prefix
myself; yourself; I; me; you
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
although; despite; whereas; while; if only; I wish
adds force or indicates command
to hold (in one's hand); to take; to possess; to have; to maintain; to keep; to last
to be seen; to be in sight; to look; to seem; to come
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend
above; up; top; summit; surface; before; previous
to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop
(not) anything; (nothing) at all; and everything else; and all; (not) at all; (not) in the least
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...; did not ...
to kill; to slay; to suppress; to block; to suppress (a voice, feelings, etc.); to hold back
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)