one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
cause of offense; cause of offence; annoyance; spasms; convulsions; cramps
ladle; dipper; wild chervil (Anthriscus sylvestris); cow parsley; keck
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to touch; to feel; to get involved (with); to approach; to be harmful to; to hinder
indicates supposition; if ... then; when; (typically after someone's name) indicates exasperation
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
wet nurse; nursing mother
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
honorific/polite/humble prefix
beach; seashore; captured pieces (in the game of go); captured stones; Yokohama; (arch.) riverbank
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
kitchen; financial situation
ascent; climbing; up-train; train heading toward the starting point of its route; upbound (esp. toward Tokyo); upstream
door frame; window frame; frame sections of the door or window that provide most of its structural integrity
town; block; downtown; main street; street; road
to sit down; to take a seat
while; during; while; although; all; both
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
really; truly; indeed; good grief
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
how much; something over; and something; however (much); no matter how
seeming; giving the appearance of; giving one the feeling of
tough; hard; determined; strong-minded; strong (e.g. sunlight, alcohol); severe
even if; even though; however; no matter how
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
quite; entirely; completely; as if; as though; just like
humanity; empathy; kindness; human nature; common sense; customs and manners
something like ...; something called ...
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 trample down; to tread on; to ignore; to spurn
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
indicates reason or excuse; indicates dissatisfaction; indicates desire to be pampered or indulged
kamado; traditional Japanese wood or charcoal-fueled cook stove
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
to feel hot; to flush; to burn
grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention