to perceive; to sense; to understand; to comprehend; to attain enlightenment
young bird; chick; fledgling; hina doll; doll displayed during the Girls' Festival
furnished with; including; attached to; impression; appearance; luck; sociality
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
such things as ...; and ... and; the minute (that) ...; no sooner than ...; be; is; o
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
presentiment; premonition; hunch; to have a premonition; to have a hunch
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 be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
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
yes; indeed; ha!; what?; huh?; sigh
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
March; third month of the lunar calendar
third day of the month; three days
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
missing (of a person); lost; unaccounted for; whereabouts unknown
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
circumstances; conditions; situation; reasons; state of affairs
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
Sapporo (city in Hokkaido)
grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
to move (house); to change residence
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
I'm sorry; my apologies; excuse me; pardon me
I'm told; is what I heard; is how it is, apparently; is what they said
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already
remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively
to be sad; to mourn for; to regret
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)