what the?; what's that?; what are you doing?; what's going on?
liked; well-liked; in love (with); loved; faddism; eccentricity
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
it seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?
confession; acknowledgement; confession of love; professing one's feelings; confession of sins (e.g. the confessional)
lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well...; I think...
gear; speed (e.g. 4-speed transmission)
bad (taste); unpalatable; poor; unskillful; ugly; unattractive
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
since some time ago; for some time; for quite a while
detestable; abhorrent; loathsome
man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
to speak with an accent; to be corrupted (of word); to mispronounce
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
many; numerous; large amount of; large quantity of; frequent; common
little girl; maiden; young lady; female usually between 7 and 18 years old
to coil around; to follow about; to be related to; to concern; to be associated with
story; tale; talk; discussion
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
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
two persons; two people; pair; couple
female high-school student
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
test of courage (e.g. at a frightening place such as a graveyard); dare
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 do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
method; process; manner; way; means; technique
alone; by oneself; on one's own
grounds (esp. of shrines and temples); compound; churchyard; precincts