house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah
yes; that is correct; um; errr; huh?; grrr
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture); sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
in that way; thus; so; so?
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
adds force or indicates command
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)
meeting; assembly; party; society; association; club
Tsu (city in Mie); harbour; harbor; ferry
Shinsengumi; Edo period police and military force dedicated to suppressing anti-shogunate activities
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
if; in case; as for; on the topic of; if that's the case; if so
indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!
what; you-know-what; that thing; whatsit; whachamacallit; (not) at all; (not) in the slightest
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
it seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?
to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop
to face; to go towards; to head towards
to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade
precisely; exactly; plumb; damn; stupid; cursed
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
clique; group; (political) faction; wing; school; sect
(common) soldier; rank and file; army; troops; warfare; strategy
feudal domain (Edo and early Meiji periods, precursor to current prefectures); fiefdom; province
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
to receive; to take; to get somebody to do something; to have in one's pocket (a fight, match); to contract (a disease); to catch
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
to meet; to encounter; to see; to have an accident; to have a bad experience
to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound