welcome!; nice to see you!
educational institution; school; academy; campus
senior high school; high school
baseball club (at a university, corporation, etc.); baseball team
popular name; common name; nickname; alias
island; one's territory (e.g. of a sex worker, organized crime gang); one's turf
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
qian (one of the trigrams of the I Ching: heaven, northwest)
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
supervision; control; superintendence; director; superintendent; supervisor
Suō (former province located in the southeast of present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture)
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
if; in case; as for; on the topic of; if that's the case; if so
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
to receive; to take; to get somebody to do something; to have in one's pocket (a fight, match); to contract (a disease); to catch
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
yes; that is correct; um; errr; huh?; grrr
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
to cover; to hide; to conceal; to wrap; to disguise
he; she; this; this one; Hey, you!; You bastard!
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
goblin; apparition; monster; ghost; phantom; spectre
senior (at work or school); superior; elder; older graduate; progenitor; old-timer
dispensing with the preliminaries ...; omitting the previous part
Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
letter; missive; note; mail
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
slow; time-consuming; late (in the day); towards the end (of the day or night); later (than expected or usual); late
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed