business; trade; operations; sales
company employee; member of a corporation; company stockholder (esp. in legal contexts)
good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
adds force or indicates command
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
yes; that is correct; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?
dealt hand consisting of one 20-point card and six 1-point cards; outstanding; standing out above the rest
excuse me; pardon me; I'm sorry; thank you
reason; significance; cause; piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...
advantage; benefit; profit; interest
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
suffix for familiar person
again; once more; also; too; on the other hand; while; and
that is so; that is right; it looks to me; people say that; it is said that; I hear that
(one's) inner voice; voice of one's heart; what one really thinks
advertising agency; advertising firm; advertising company
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
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
so to speak; so to call it; as it were
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that...; trying to...
quality; value; nature; inherent quality; logical quality
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to be responsible for; to bear the responsibility of
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
-like; sort of; similar to; resembling
underling; person of low standing; grunt; petty (work, official, etc.); minor; lowly
first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
goods piled beneath; lower layer; lowest social strata; bottom (of the ladder); low rank
necessary; needed; essential; necessity; need; requirement
one portion; one serving; adult; grown-up; fully fledged; established
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
to recognize; to recognise; to deem; to judge; to approve; to deem acceptable; to admit
thank you for your hard work; good work; see you; goodbye; goodnight
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then