bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
chirp; twitter; warble; whale tongue
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
next (e.g. "next April"); forthcoming; coming; to come; to arrive; to be due to
feeling; sense; impression
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...; wow
senior (at school, work, etc.); superior; elder; older person; predecessor
you; before (a god, nobleman, etc.); in front of
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
flower; blossom; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; hanafuda
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
from; since; through (e.g. a window, door); via; because; as; from (as in "made from")
again; once more; also; too; on the other hand; while; and
junior (at work, school, etc.); younger people; younger student
please remember me; please help me; please treat me well; please do; please take care of
university; college; former imperial university of Japan (established under the ritsuryō system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
in the first place; to begin with; after all; anyway; beginning; start
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
department (in an organization, company, etc.); division; club (at a school, university, etc.); team; part; portion
nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not
and; besides; because; since; the thing is; for one thing
senior high school; high school
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
to that extent; to that degree; so much; so
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
although; despite; whereas; while; if only; I wish
what; you-know-what; that thing; whatsit; whachamacallit; penis; (one's) thing
you said; he said; even if; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
unexpected; surprising; unanticipated; strange; unforeseen
(for something) to have occurred; to have done (something); (for something) to happen on occasion
in that way; thus; so; the same; so?
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine