severe; harsh; stringent; rigorous; strict; unfair
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
to take; to pick up; to pass; to hand; to get; to obtain; to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.)
yes; yeah; huh?; what?; not; 's
(not so) much; (not) very
showing no signs of; there being no hint of; (arch.) unthinkable
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
banter; teasing; chaffing; merely asking the price; just looking at goods; window-shopping
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
to hit; to strike; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.); to move; to impress
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
to resign; to retire; to quit; to leave (one's job, etc.)
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
to leave alone; to leave as is; to ignore; to neglect
in short; in a word; to sum up; to put it simply; to make a long story short; after all
sweet-tasting; sweet; fragrant (smelling); sweet (music); lightly salted; light in salt; naive
suffix for familiar person
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...; did not ...
how much; how many; however (much); no matter how; what matters is ...; it all comes down to ...
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
to be duplicated; to be repeated; to overlap; to fall together (of dates, etc.); to repeat (a failed course, school year, etc.); to make a double play
yes?; no?; isn't it?; is it?
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
not less than; ... and over; beyond (e.g. one's expectations); above; above-mentioned; aforementioned
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
myself; yourself; I; me; you
honorific/polite/humble prefix
slap in the face; slap on the cheek
to stick; to paste; to stretch; to spread; to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; to swell
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
in one's own way or style
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot
to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted
so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already