indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
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
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
(another's) daughter; young lady (of pampered upbringing); woman who has never known hardship; naive woman
please; somehow or other; one way or another
to support; to prop; to sustain; to hold at bay; to stem; to check
discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude
guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper
to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
no; nay; well; er; you're welcome; not at all
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
in that way; thus; so; so?
meeting (face-to-face); seeing; visit; interview
to summon; to call (e.g. phone); to convene; to invoke (e.g. subroutine); to call; to open (e.g. a file)
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
hello (e.g. on phone); excuse me! (when calling out to someone)
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
understood; I see; OK; present; here
happy; glad; pleased; joyful; delightful; gratifying
telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
now; the present time; just now; another; more
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
where; what place; how much (long, far); what extent
house (e.g. of Tokugawa); family
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
yes; that is correct; um; errr; huh?; grrr
now; soon; already; yet; further; more
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station