bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
chirp; twitter; warble; whale tongue
what; you-know-what; that thing; whatsit; whachamacallit; penis; (one's) thing
dead body; corpse; cadaver; carcass
yes; that is correct; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?
safety; security; safely; without incident; good health; inaction
road; path; way; set of practices; moral education; Buddhist teachings; Taoism
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
to advance (spatially); to go forward; to precede; to go ahead (of); to make progress; to move ahead (e.g. of work); to intensify
to go; to move (towards); to move through; to travel across; to go (well, badly, etc.); to proceed; to do (in a particular way)
to be mentally slow; to be befuddled; to become engrossed in; to become absorbed in; to become frayed and dishevelled (of hair, grass, etc.); to be fluffy
university; college; former imperial university of Japan (established under the ritsuryō system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
yes; yeah; huh?; what?; 's; of
yes; that is correct; um; errr; huh?; grrr
guidance; leadership; instruction; shido (minor penalty in judo)
professor; teaching; instruction
paulownia (Paulownia tomentosa); empress tree; foxglove tree
mound; heap; burial mound; tomb; standing stone; stone signpost
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
one way or another; in many ways; in various ways
to care for someone; to look after someone
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour
spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence
from; since; through (e.g. a window, door); via; because; as; from (as in "made from")
(practical) business; business practice; business affairs; (actual) work
apprenticeship; probation; learning by observation; apprentice; trainee; probationer
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
to start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...
warehouse; storehouse; cellar; magazine; granary; godown
third son; Occella iburia (species of poacher)
older brother; elder brother; brother-in-law (spouse's older brother or older sister's husband)
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
which; where; all; both; anyway; anyhow
this way; this direction; here; this (one); I; me
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work