sincere; honest; faithful
truth; reality; sincerity; honesty; indeed; really
any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand
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; since; through (e.g. a window, door); via; because; as; from (as in "made from")
mountain; hill; mine; (mountain) forest; heap; pile; protruding or high part of an object
to receive; to get; to eat; to drink; to be crowned with; to wear (on one's head)
to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
he; she; that person; that; that one; that thing
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
remittance fraud; bank transfer scam
moreover; furthermore; nevertheless; and yet
dried small sardines, etc. used to make fish stock; person in bank transfer scam whose role it is to withdraw the cash
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
old person; elderly person; trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay; senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate); important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)
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.
telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
to trick; to cheat; to deceive; to coax; to wheedle; to soothe
genuine article; real thing; real deal
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
actual spot; scene (of a crime, accident, etc.); (on) site; (on) the ground; filming location; (movie) set
man; male; masculine gender
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
yes; yeah; huh?; what?; 's; of
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various
common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice
to think (about, of); to think over; to consider; to bear in mind; to think (that); to believe; to intend (to do)
funny; amusing; strange; odd; wrong; unsuitable
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
generally; on the whole; general; rough; outline; main points
across; over; beyond; throughout (a period of time); for
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
voice; singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); voice; opinion (as expressed in words); sound; sense (of something's arrival)
approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like
to grow senile; to be childish with age; to be mentally slow; to be befuddled; to play stupid; to say something stupid (oft. on purpose; esp. as part of a comedic routine)
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt; sentence-ending particle expressing a rhetorical question
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...; wow
(police) detective; criminal matter