bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
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
chirp; twitter; warble; whale tongue
refrigerator; cold; cool; cold sake
you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
fluttering; flapping; (arch.) flickering (light, flame, etc.); frill; piece of thin material
to wash; to cleanse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore)
difficult to ...; hard to ...
indicates supposition; if ... then; when; (typically after someone's name) indicates exasperation
hm; um; huh?; what?; nuh-uh; no
beast (i.e. any animal other than man); person reborn into the animal realm; brute (i.e. a contemptible human being); damn it; damn
haughty; arrogant; insolent; proud; overbearing
female; woman; female sex; female lover; girlfriend; mistress
what!; oh; what the heck; what the; damn
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
idiot; moron; trivial matter; folly; stupid; foolish
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
to fail; to blunder; to make a mess; to drink up; to eat up
to fall fast asleep; to be confined to one's bed; to be laid up
space (between); gap; period of time (during, while); duration; between (two parties or things); among (a group); relations (between)
to collect; to gather; to save; to accumulate; to pile up
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
all; entire; whole; altogether
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
to be decided; to be settled; to be unchanging; to be the same (as always); to be a fixed rule; to be destined; to be well executed (of a manoeuvre in a sport, game, etc.)
it seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
injury; wound; mistake; accident; loss
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.
continuously in some state (for a long time, distance); throughout; much (better, etc.); by far; far away; long ago
to sleep (lying down); to go to bed; to lie in bed; to lie down; to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse); to lie flat (e.g. of hair); to lie idle (of funds, stock, etc.)
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
to pass (of time); to elapse
so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already
no; nay; well; er; you're welcome; not at all