one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
warm; mild; (pleasantly) hot; considerate; kind; genial
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
woman; female; female lover; girlfriend; mistress
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
charm; attractiveness; humanity
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
after all; in the end; in short; atyanta (absoluteness)
dream; dream; hope; unrealistic aspiration; daydream; delusion
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
evening; night; dinner; evening meal; counter for nights
snake; serpent; large snake
waterfall; (arch.) rapids
retirement (to a temple of shrine) for prayer
temple; shrine; hall; company; (arch.) front room
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
again; once more; a second time
fleeting; transient; short-lived; empty (dream, etc.); mere (hope); faint (possibility)
to hang up (e.g. a coat, a picture on the wall); to let hang; to put on (e.g. a blanket); to put on top of; to put on (glasses, etc.); to wear (a necklace, etc.); to make (a call)
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
last night; yesterday evening
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
to differ (from); to be different; to be wrong; to be incorrect; to become abnormal; to go wrong
gently (raining); drizzling; moist; damp
rain; rainy day; rainy weather; the November suit (in hanafuda)
eaves; narrow aisle surrounding the core of a temple building
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 go around; to make a circle around; to surround; to circle; to come around (of a season, anniversary, turn, etc.); to return
sound; noise; (musical) note; fame
pillow; bolster; introduction (e.g. to a rakugo story); lead-in
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
lonely (e.g. person, feeling); lonesome; desolate; deserted; sad; lacking
inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)
ecstatically; spellbound; with rapt attention; abstractedly; absentmindedly; absorbedly
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
overhead; above one's head; high in the sky
far away; far off; far; long ago; long before
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
to make noise; to make racket; to rustle; to swoosh; to make merry; to clamor; to clamour
voice; singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); voice; opinion (as expressed in words); sound; sense (of something's arrival)
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...