honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
to work hard; to make an effort
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
smallness; small item; short month (i.e. having fewer than 31 days); elementary school; smaller (of two things, places, etc. with the same name); inferior; younger (of two people with the same name)
plain; plateau; tableland
thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
new; neo-; newness; novelty; Gregorian calendar; Xin dynasty (China, 9-23 CE)
small dried sardines or anchovies (gomame) cooked almost to dryness in soy sauce and sugar; tilling a rice field; person who tills a paddy field
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
viewing as ...; seeing as ...; treating as ...; regarding as ...
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to begin; to start; to happen (again); to begin (anew); to date (from); to originate (in)
appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style
eh?; what?; yes; that's correct; (arch.) strengthens a question, assertion, etc.; (arch.) hey
any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand
mountain; hill; mine (e.g. coal mine); heap; pile; crown (of a hat); thread (of a screw)
marsh; swamp; wetland; being hooked (on a video game, TV show, etc.)
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; flood; floodwaters; water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout
to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have
you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
blind female beggar who sings or plays shamisen
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
field (for fruits, vegetables, etc.); cultivated land; field (of specialization); sphere; womb; birth
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
(husked grains of) rice; staple (product, etc.); necessity
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
is that so? (generally rhetorical)
in that way; thus; so; so?
(way of) life; living; livelihood; life circumstances
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
small quantity; little; little while; short distance
comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery