indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
eating habits; diet; dietary pattern
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
branch office; branch store
section manager; section chief
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.
to hold (in one's hand); to take; to possess; to have; to maintain; to keep; to last
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
branch manager; manager of a branch office
language; dialect; word; phrase; speech; (manner of) speaking
to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in
steel; steal (baseball, basketball)
from; since; through (e.g. a window, door); via; because; as; from (as in "made from")
hundred million; 100,000,000; 10^8
yen (currency of Japan); circle
contract; compact; agreement
to install; to fit; to (manage to) obtain (someone's agreement, permission, etc.); to get; to patronize (a shop); to buy usually (from the same store)
(being in) the red; deficit; red letter; red writing; corrections (by a teacher or proofreader) written in red
the other day; previously; last time; last (Sunday, summer, etc.); previous (e.g. mayor, chapter)
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
100,000,000; one hundred million; 10^8
(being in) the black; surplus; black letter
expectation; anticipation; prediction; forecast; conjecture
should (be); bound (to be); nock (of a bow); nock (of an arrow); nock-shaped grip (between thumb and forefinger); wooden frame on the tip of the mast of a Japanese ship that prevents the hawser from falling out
only; merely; but; no more than
how; in what way; why; for what reason; cannot possibly; no way
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
embellishment (e.g. of a story); ornamentation; decoration; (arch.) putting on makeup
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
successfully; fairly; artfully; nicely; completely; thoroughly
to take by deception; to defraud someone of; to swindle someone out of; to cheat someone out of
to finish; to stop; to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to put away; to put back
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
one person; being alone; being by oneself; being single; being unmarried; by oneself
to rub (on); to wipe; to daub; to lay (the blame on someone); to pin; to shift
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
scheming; planning; maneuvering; manoeuvring; plotting