main; principal; chief; primary; major
everything; all; the whole; entirely; completely; wholly
to fit into (a box, frame, category, etc.); to be contained within; to settle down (into); to be installed (in one's rightful place); to settle into (one's position); to take up (a post)
place; situation; position; location
arrangement (of resources); deployment; stationing; posting; disposition; configuration
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.
past; after; too (much); over- (e.g. eating)
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
behind; rear; after; later; remainder; the rest; more (e.g. five more minutes)
to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to
railway station; train station; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan); counter for railway stations and bus stations
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
carefree; comfortable; at ease; easygoing; happy-go-lucky
restaurant (esp. Western-style)
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
lunch; midday meal; food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)
alone; by oneself; on one's own
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
again; once more; a second time
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound
(not) so; (not) particularly; (not) very; (not) that much
big; large; loud; extensive; spacious; important
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
apartment building; housing complex
western edge (e.g. of city); west side
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
eat-in-kitchen; combination kitchen-dining room; dropkick (rugby)
entrance; front door; entryway; entranceway; entry hall; vestibule
to enter; to go into; to break into; to join; to enroll; to contain; to hold
front; frontage; facade; main
corridor; hallway; passageway
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
inner part; inside; interior; depths (e.g. of a forest); back (of a house, drawer, etc.); bottom (e.g. of one's heart)
towards (a destination); for the purpose of; with the goal of; targeting (a group, a demographic)