jpdb beta

spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence

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here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...

2

noodle making

4

counter for places

4

Musashi (former province located in parts of present-day Tokyo, Kanagawa and Saitama prefectures)

5

rice field

5

branch office; branch store

5

indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

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remnant; residue; remaining; left-over

1

few days

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at; in; at; when; by; with; and then

21

closing up shop (for the day); stopping business; going out of business

6

parent company

1

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

36

white; innocence; innocent person; blank space; white go stone; white dragon tile; skewered grilled pig intestine

22

Yue (kingdom in ancient China; 6th C-334 BCE); Vietnam

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this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")

5

store; shop; establishment; restaurant

9

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.

24

to smash; to crush; to shut down; to put out of business; to wreck; to break; to butcher

1

former site (of something); site (e.g. of a demolished building)

1

at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for

23

hotel

4

construction; establishment

1

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)

1

seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...

1

black stone; black (go pieces)

4

store; shop

5

and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...

2

safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good

7

that's the way it is; yes; is that so?; is it?

1

Japanese red pine (Pinus densiflora); Japanese umbrella pine; tanyosho pine

3

be; is

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today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays

4

too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as

11

tightly (holding on); firmly; strongly (built); solidly; properly; well

2

most; highest; maximum; best; wonderful; finest

3

udon; thick Japanese wheat noodles

6

offer; tender; providing; sponsoring (a TV program)

1

to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become

4

about this time

1

tie up; bind; sum; total amount; judo choking (strangling) techniques; last meal eaten when going restaurant hopping; completion

1

work; operation; manufacturing; fatigue duty

1

(in) the middle of; (in) the midst of; (in) the course of; (at) the height of

1

in that way; thus; so; so?

4

president (of a society); chairman

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if; in case; as for; on the topic of; if that's the case; if so

3

private room; single (room); room for one; (toilet) stall

1

to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing

2

indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!

3