association; socializing; socialising; fellowship
please remember me; please help me; please treat me well; please do; please take care of
it is I who should say so
please remember me; please help me; please treat me well; please do; please take care of
to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate
slow; time-consuming; late (in the day); towards the end (of the day or night); later (than expected or usual); late
to loiter around; to wander about
to play (games, sports); to enjoy oneself; to mess about (with alcohol, gambling, philandery, etc.); to be idle; to do nothing; to meet up (with friends); to hang out
to cause trouble (for someone); to annoy; to bother; to inconvenience
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
receiving; reception; eating; drinking; please; please do for me
preparatory school (for entrance examinations); cram school; cramming school
whether or not (in phrases like "I don't know whether or not I can come")
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
although; despite; whereas; while; if only; I wish
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
to have a talk; to tell a story
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)
store; shop; establishment; restaurant
to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.); to inherit; to patch (clothes); to mend; to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire); to replenish with
(being in) the red; deficit; red letter; red writing; corrections (by a teacher or proofreader) written in red
continuation; rest (of the story, work, etc.); flow (e.g. of a piece of writing); pacing (of a story); succession (of); sequence
cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
timid; weak-kneed; fainthearted; bearish (e.g. market)
in that way; like that; that way
self-confidence; confidence (in oneself)
recently; lately; these days
to go smoothly; to turn out well; to do the trick; to have peaceful relations
troupe; theatrical company
fraud; swindle; graft; saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it; making promises without keeping them
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
to meet (by chance); to come across; to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.); to emerge and engage (an enemy)
junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
table tennis club; ping-pong club
to recall; to remember; to recollect
being very active; being very useful; playing a very active part; making a spectacular showing; great efforts; splendid work
painful; bitter; tough; difficult; cruel; harsh