to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
hello; good day; good afternoon
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
suffix for familiar person
granny; grandma; gran; old lady; old woman
grandfather; male senior-citizen
festival; feast; carnival; matsuri
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
yes; that is correct; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such
weather; fair weather; fine weather
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
yes; yeah; huh?; what?; 's; of
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
early evening (usu. from 3pm to 6pm); dusk
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
to cease; to stop; to be over
seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?
such things as ...; and ... and; the minute (that) ...; no sooner than ...; be; is; o
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
to say; to be called; to do
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
separation; living separately; living apart
now; the present time; just now; another; more
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
distinction; difference; separate; different; exception; exclusion
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...
please; kindly; by all means; certainly; here you are; to give
seed leaves (of a dicot); cotyledons; bud; early stages; very beginning
worry; concern; anxiety; care; help; aid
from; since; through (e.g. a window, door); via; because; as; from (as in "made from")
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start