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
reconciliation (with one's spouse, adopted child, etc.)
love; affection; attachment; craving; agape; Ireland
song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry
to track down; to locate; to find out; to smoke out; to ferret out; to chase up
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
myself; yourself; I; me; you
liked; well-liked; in love (with); loved; faddism; eccentricity
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
nicely; properly; frequently; often; I'm glad that you ...; thank you for ...
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
frustrated (over a failure, humiliation or injustice); annoyed; chagrined; (bitterly) disappointed; bitter; vexed
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
(some) more; even more; longer; further
to make a display of; to show off; to flaunt
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
dawn (sometimes esp. in ref. to the 16th day of the lunar month onward)
origin of a word; derivation of a word; etymology
to raise; to bring to (someone's attention); to appeal to (reason, emotions, etc.); to work on (one's emotions); to complain; to sue (a person)
having many difficulties in store; grim prospects
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
state of affairs (around you); situation; circumstances
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
family; members of a family
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
grandfather (may be used after name as honorific); male senior-citizen (may be used after name as honorific)
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
again (and again); once again; yet again; (there you go) again
seems; I think; I guess; don't you agree?; I thought you'd say that!
mixed vegetable and seafood tempura; something pulled upwards; small castle with a simple earthen-walled moat; turning up a lamp wick
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
bento; Japanese box lunch
diligently; seriously; perfectly; properly; sufficiently; satisfactorily
by myself; in person; by oneself
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
shrimp (infraorder Caridea); small shrimp, prawn or lobster
trough shell adductor muscle; columella
ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pile (of noodles, etc.); bullet
Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum); green onion; spring onion
mitsuba (Cryptotaenia japonica); Japanese honewort; Japanese honeywort; three-leaved; trefoil
most; highest; maximum; best; wonderful; finest