illness; disease; bad habit; weakness; fault
heavy; weighty; heavy (feeling); depressed; slow; sluggish; important (position, responsibility, etc.)
avenue; street; coming and going; street traffic; flow (of water, air, etc.); transmission (of sound); reach (e.g. of voice)
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such
even; indicates something unexpected occurs
husband; master (of a house, shop, etc.)
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
(another's) daughter; young lady
to come; to go; to be (somewhere); to be (doing)
is that so? (generally rhetorical)
victory or defeat; match; contest; game
making a person, pet, etc. wait (before being permitted to do something); postponement; putting on hold
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
voluntary; optional; free; elective
very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave
it was, wasn't it?; must have been; I think (it was); how might it have been?
lodging; inn; house; home; home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)
Japanese league; ri; neighbourhood (under the ritsuryo system; orig. of 50 homes); unit of area (approx. 654m by 654m)
morning; breakfast; (arch.) next morning
five; five years of age; eight o'clock (old time system)
countryside; country; 50-home township (comprised of 2-3 neighbourhoods)
throughout; over a period of ...; over a span of ...
without change; as is; just like; extremely similar; immediately; just after
straight (ahead); direct; upright; straightforward; honest; frank
fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet
to arrive at; to reach; to sit on; to sit at (e.g. the table)
to walk through (to the end); to walk the whole way
yes?; no?; isn't it?; is it?
to get tired; to tire; to become worn out (of a well-used object); (arch.) to starve
no; nay; well; er; you're welcome; not at all
article; item; quality; flirtatiousness; coquetry
(short) rest; breather; break
my husband; one's family; family member
right in the middle (of); midst; height
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...; did not ...
yo!; hello there!; wow!; oh!; yah! (yell)
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need