growth; development; growing up; growth (of a company, the economy, etc.)
way; method; means; resource; course
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
complicated; complex; intricate; confusing; difficult; troublesome
nonexistent; not being (there); not having; not
end; ending; close; end of (one's) life; death
to swell; to rise; to bulge; to rouse; to get excited
lesson; class; teaching; instruction; classwork; schoolwork
myself; yourself; I; me; you
to attach; to join; to furnish (a house with); to wear; to put on; to keep a diary; to make an entry
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
to be (animate); to be; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed; to (have the audacity to) do
writing (an essay, prose, etc.); composition; formal writing with little real meaning
to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint
reason; cause; meaning; sense; (good) sense; reason
remind me; I forget; was it?; was that what happened?
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
Emishi; Ezo; non-Yamato peoples in northern Japan; Yezo; Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands
by myself; in person; by oneself
no!; no no!; no, not at all
such a stupid ...; what a crazy ...; no way!; what nonsense!; how can that be?
government office; public office
to go; to come; to lose; to be defeated; to be stumped (by); to be at a loss; to visit (a shrine, grave, etc.)
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt; sentence-ending particle expressing a rhetorical question
poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at); not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite
(one's) older sister; (one's) elder sister; girl
(male) lover (esp. of a prostitute); paramour (of a married woman)
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
Heisei era (1989.1.8-2019.4.30)
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
pluralizing suffix; nickname-forming suffix
crown (of head); summit (of mountain); easy win for one; something received
such; like that; that sort of
to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted
painful; sore; cringy; embarrassing
eh?; what?; yes; that's correct; used for soft emphasis or to soften a statement or request; (arch.) strengthens a question, assertion, etc.
you bastard!; you son of a bitch!
than; rather than; instead of; from; out of; except
woman; female; female lover; girlfriend; mistress