junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
pupil in ... year; student in ... year
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
to say; to be called; to do
some time ago; recently; lately; last (Sunday, etc.); previous
for the first time; only after ... is it ...; only when ... do you ...; first time; (one's) first
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
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
force; strength; capability; ability; efficacy; effect; effort
crystal; crystallization; crystallisation; fruits (of labor, union, etc.)
healing (esp. through alternative therapies, music, color therapy, supernatural powers, etc.)
precisely; exactly; plumb; damn; stupid; cursed
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
purification; cleanup (e.g. of politics); purge
to be able (to); to be possible (to)
from now on; after this; in the future; from here; from this point
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
honorific/polite/humble prefix
salary; pay; medical care; treatment; advance preparation
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
such; this sort of; like this
to wear (in modern Japanese, from the shoulders down); to put on; to bear (guilt, etc.)
(emotional) tension; anxiety; (highness of) spirits; (good) mood; tension; tensile strength
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
feeling; sensation; preparedness; readiness; thought; sentiment
you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
to become tense; to be tightened; to become firm (e.g. body)
to feel (as if); to have a feeling (that); to have a hunch (that); to feel like doing; to want to do
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
recently; lately; these days; nearest; closest
various; all sorts of; variety of; (arch.) various colors (colours)
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
and; besides; because; since; the thing is; for one thing