quantity; amount; volume; number; amount of money
company; lot; bunch; troupe; company (of musicians)
to be caught; to be arrested; to hold on to; to grasp; to find (e.g. proof); to get (e.g. a taxi)
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
assistance; help; aid; support; reinforcement
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
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.)
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
foe; enemy; resentment; enmity; harm; injury
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
Matsuyama (city in Ehime)
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
same; identical; equal; anyway; anyhow; in either case
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
worst; horrible; horrid; in the worst case; if worst comes to worst
that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so
delinquent (youth); delinquency; Yankee
house; one's house; one's home; one's family
-like; sort of; similar to; resembling
school centred on preparing students to get into university; high-level school a person has entered
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
tradition; legend; folklore
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...
isn't it?; don't you think?; right?; surely; come on
what the?; what's that?; what are you doing?; what's going on?
explanation; exposition; description; account; caption; legend
in history; ever; historical
barely; narrowly; only just; with difficulty
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
terrible; dreadful; terrifying; surprising; startling; tremendous
(not) ever; (not) by any means; (not) in the least; (not) in any way; (not) at all
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
true character; true form; true colors (colours); consciousness; one's senses
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.