first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
child; small person; dwarf; midget; narrow-minded person; mean person
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
great tumult; great strife; big loud bang; bustle; dirdum; hell broken loose
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
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.
travel; trip; journey; excursion; tour
Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
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
unusual; rare; new; novel; fine (e.g. gift)
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
name; given name; first name
Gulliver; preeminent example of its kind
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
to say; to be called; to do
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ...; given that ...
seamanship; (the art of) navigation
medical science; medicine
et cetera; etc.; or something; the likes of; for example; for instance
study; diligence; discount; reduction
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave
satisfaction; pride; one's strong point; one's forte; regular customer; regular client
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
multiplication table; times table
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
May; fifth month of the lunar calendar
number; edition; sobriquet; pen-name; size (of printing types, canvases, knitting needles, etc.); suffix attached to names of ships, trains, airplanes, etc.
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for