bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
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
chirp; twitter; warble; whale tongue
nth son; lang; official title in ancient China; (arch.) man; (arch.) young man; (arch.) my husband
eh?; what?; yes; that's correct; (arch.) strengthens a question, assertion, etc.; (arch.) hey
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah
yes; indeed; ha!; what?; huh?; sigh
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
to fall down; to drop; to be omitted; to be missing; to decrease; to sink; to fail (e.g. exam or class)
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
one; for one thing; only; (not) even; just (e.g. "just try it"); some kind of; one type of
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
adds force or indicates command
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
to receive; to get; to catch (e.g. a ball); to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.); to sustain (damage); to incur (a loss); to undergo (e.g. surgery)
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well...; I think...
unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
to recommend (someone to do); to advise; to recommend (a book, someone for a position, etc.); to suggest; to offer (a drink, cigarette, seat, etc.)
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
hah (derisively); pooh; pfft (of something disappearing); poof; huff; puff
now; soon; already; yet; further; more
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
difficult to ...; hard to ...
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need