fast; quick; easy; simple; as soon as ...; the moment ...
hello; good day; good afternoon
office; official; chief; head; person (usually a woman) who officiates at religious ceremonies (on the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa)
oh!; good heavens!; ugh!; oh no!; ah!; the penny drops!
to come; to go; to be (somewhere); to be (doing)
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
yikes; oops; eep; wow; aargh
to send; to dispatch; to see (someone) off; to escort; to bid farewell to (the departed); to say goodbye to; to spend (time)
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
although; despite; whereas; while; if only; I wish
in that way; thus; so; the same; so?
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
mother; mom; wife; you (of an elderly person older than the speaker); she
you said; he said; even if; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky
from; since; through (e.g. a window, door); via; because; as; from (as in "made from")
as usual; as always; as before; as ever; still
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...; wow
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
this and that; this or that; one thing or another; this way and that
to mind; to care about; to be an issue; to matter; to keep company; to care for; to interfere with
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
father; dad; papa; pa; pop; daddy
taking up a post away from one's family; job transfer without one's family; living apart from one's family for the sake of one's job; unaccompanied posting
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
remainder; remnant; not very; not much; too much; excessively
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
oh; right; I see; OK; gotcha
a little; a bit; just a minute; for a moment; somewhat; rather; (not) easily
fast; quick; early; soon; premature; too soon
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
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.)
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
somewhere; in some respects; in some way
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
to go; to move (towards); to move through; to travel across; to go (well, badly, etc.); to proceed; to do (in a particular way)
with trouble; at great pains; rare; valuable; kind; generous
so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already