large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
honorific/polite/humble prefix
request; favour (to ask); wish; please
horizontal (as opposed to vertical); lying down; side-to-side (as opposed to front-to-back); width; side (of a box, etc.); beside
mountain; hill; mine (e.g. coal mine); heap; pile; crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw)
member; participant; attendee; lineup (sport)
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
day; days; sun; sunshine; (the) day; daytime; date
Osaka (city); (arch.) large hill
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
position; location; base; point; site
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
activity (of a person, organization, animal, volcano, etc.); action; movie (esp. during the silent movie period)
idol group; boy band; girl group
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
leaving one's own house (e.g. when going to war); departure; setting out; starting a new life; starting life anew
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
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
to go out to meet; to receive; to welcome; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to call for; to summon
Kansai; region consisting of Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto and surrounding prefectures; Kansai; south-western half of Japan (during the feudal era)
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
unit; (musical) group; band
Naniwa (former name for Osaka region)
after (practically) no time; immediately after; just; having no time to
to approach; to draw near; to be imminent; to press (someone for something); to urge; to compel
public performance; exhibition in a foreign country
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
to ask; to inquire; to blame (someone) for; to accuse of; to care about; to regard as important
large; big; older; senior; final; ultimate
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.)
from now on; after this; in the future; from here; from this point
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)
next; following; subsequent; stage; station