first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
child (esp. one of elementary school age or younger)
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); province (of Japan)
great disturbance; great tumult; turmoil; wild uproar; pandemonium
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 ...-ed; to be ...-ed
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; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
rare; uncommon; new; novel; fine; nice
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; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
to say; to be called; to do
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
from; since; through (e.g. a window, door); via; because; as; from (as in "made from")
ship; boat; tank; tub; counter for boat-shaped containers (e.g. of sashimi)
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
to get on (train, plane, bus, ship, etc.); to get in; to get on (e.g. a footstool); to step on; to reach; to go over; to follow
to go; to move (towards); to move through; to travel across; to go (well, badly, etc.); to proceed; to do (in a particular way)
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
because; as; since; because of that; therefore; accordingly
seamanship; (the art of) navigation
medicine; medical science
et cetera; etc.; or something; the likes of; for example; for instance
study; diligence; working hard; experience; knowledge; discount
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
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.