jpdb beta

accent (of one's speech); dialect; provincialism; corrupted form (e.g. of word); mispronunciation

1

justifiable; warranted; reasonable

1

speech; expression; wording; language

2

after all; in the end; anyway; (cannot) possibly; (not) at all; (not) by any means

1

15; fifteen

3

Hitachi (former province located in the major part of present-day Ibaraki Prefecture)

6

mountain hamlet; mountain village

1

to creep in; to steal in; to sneak in

1

cooking rice; kitchenmaid; cook

1

difficulty; trouble; accident; disaster; fault; defect

1

to escape

1

to feel (as if); to have a feeling (that); to have a hunch (that); to feel like doing; to want to do

1

to act violently; to rage; to struggle; to be riotous

1

love affair; liaison

3

seeing and hearing; (from) one's own experiences

1

concrete; definite; specific; material; substantial

1

good luck; fortune; happiness; harvest; yield

1

unhappiness; sorrow; misfortune; death (usu. of a relative); bereavement

3

to branch; to fork; to separate; to split; to disperse; to scatter

1

useless; vain; aimless; idle

1

strong-willed; strong of heart

2

wealthy; rich; affluent; well-off

2

(cannot) possibly; (not) by any means; (not) at all; utterly; absolutely

2

amusement; diversion (to pass time); pastime; recreation

1

from now on; hereafter

1

although I say; although one might say; although called

1

canal

1

salary; pay; medical care; treatment; advance preparation

5

to decrease (in size or number); to diminish; to abate

1

to faint; to lose consciousness; to feel overwhelmed; to be astounded

1

to dismiss (an employee); to discharge; to divorce one's wife; to give a holiday; to give vacation time

3

tattling; telling on (someone)

1

tiny amount of money; a penny; one letter; one character; one mon (unit of currency)

2

mechanical

1

manual piecework done at home

1

pregnant

1

house in an alley; rear tenement

1

childbirth; (giving) birth; delivery; production (of goods)

2

side job (outside of one's main employment); side gig; part job (carried out at home); home industry; (secretly) working on something unrelated to the class (or conference, etc.) one is attending

1

to make up (a deficiency); to supplement; to add to; to put towards

1

empty-handed

1

to grumble; to be unsettled; to grizzle

1

mangy cur; low animal; beast

1

to keep company; to listen to; to associate with; to play against (e.g. a team); to take on (e.g. a rival)

1

to steal another's spouse; to steal another's lover

1

only once

2

to re-think; to think back upon; to change one's mind

1

to lead; to take the lead (in doing something); to precede; to go before; to die before (esp. one's spouse, parents, etc.); to be a prerequisite

1

damn it!; dang it!

1

to grab; to clutch; to catch hold of (someone); to stop (e.g. a stranger in the street); towards (someone); at (someone)

1