to peel; to skin; to pare; to bare (teeth, fangs); to open wide (eyes)
the old days; the past; former times; the past ten years; the past decade
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
to do completely; to do accidentally; to do without meaning to; to happen to do
grandfather; male senior-citizen; old man
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
mountain; hill; mine; (mountain) forest; heap; pile; protruding or high part of an object
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
bamboo (any grass of subfamily Bambusoideae); middle (of a three-tier ranking system)
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 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)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
to shine; to glitter; to be bright
scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
ghost; apparition; phantom; spectre; specter; demon
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
relation; relationship; participation; involvement; influence; effect
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
you said; he said; even if; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
(what) the heck; (why) in the world; one object; one body; one form; one style; one Buddhist image
spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...; wow
approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
about this time; about now
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
first dream of the New year (believed to foretell one's luck); (arch.) dream on the night of setsubun
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care
already; yet; soon; shortly; further; more