translation; version (e.g. "English version")
order; ordering; beginning; start; foreword; preface
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
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
one's chief (literary) work; main work
principle; theory; fundamental truth
Briton; Englishman; (the) English
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
7 or 3 ratio; hair parted on one side
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
wealth; riches; affluence; opulence
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
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
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
infancy; childhood; tender age
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
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.)
practical; realistic; pragmatic
education; schooling; training; culture; cultivation; education
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 receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)
behind; rear; after; later; remainder; the rest; more (e.g. five more minutes)
study; pursuit of knowledge
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
United Kingdom; Britain; English (language)
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
school education; formal education
weak; frail; delicate; tender; unskilled; weak (wine)
(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely