jpdb beta

ah; oh; hey!

13

honorific/polite/humble prefix

6

decorating a metal surface with small dots resembling fish eggs; twill weave; basket weave

13

today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays

4

indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

22

club activities; extracurricular activities

1

nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible

1

endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement

2

is that so? (generally rhetorical)

1

ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah

2

that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that

1

with trouble; at great pains; rare; valuable; kind; generous

2

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

29

summer vacation; summer holiday

2

it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...; did not ...

3

and; besides; because; since; the thing is; for one thing

4

friend; companion

2

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.

11

to bring someone along

1

too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as

5

good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial

5

the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...

8

adds force or indicates command

3

look!; look out!; hey!; look at me!; there you are!

3

custom; practice; said; aforementioned; instance; example

1

delinquent (youth); delinquency; Yankee

1

child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot

1

and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...

2

to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience

9

to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience

1

oh; yes; huh?; hm?

1

at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for

28

to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed

4

year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)

1

until now; so far; up to the present

1

various

2

face; visage; look; expression; honor; honour

4

I; me

2

to show; to display

1

to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage

2

to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted

1

angry face (countenance)

1

to cry; to weep; to sob; to howl

1

everything; all; the whole; entirely; completely; wholly

1

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)

10

treasure; treasured item; prized possession

1

be; is; did; (have) done; please; do

11

but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that

1

that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...

4

only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to

1