employee (of a store); shop assistant; clerk; salesperson
to come; to go; to be (somewhere); to be (doing)
something; some; somehow; for some reason; (is there) something (you want, etc.)
honorific/polite/humble prefix
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer)
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
MacGee; Magee; Maggee; Maggy; McGee
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
(sound of a) gunshot; (gun) report
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
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
professor; teaching; instruction
announcement (esp. over public-address system); official announcement; formal information release
more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time
than; from; out of; except; but; more
opening a port (seaport, airport, etc.); starting operations at a port; opening a port to foreign vessels or trade
whole year; entire year; n-th year anniversary
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.
commemoration; celebration; honoring the memory of something; turning something into a memento; memory
temptation; allurement; lure; enticement; seduction
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
holding (a conference, exhibition, etc.); opening; hosting (e.g. the Olympics)
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
read-only memory; ROM; lurker (on a forum); read-only member