jpdb beta

everyone; everybody; all; everything; all

3

he; him; boyfriend

1

in this way; thus; such; uh...

1

to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)

2

bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely

15

time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity

3

to go upstream; to go back (in time, to origin); to date back to; to trace back to

1

extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of

2

Japanese person; Japanese people

1

still; as yet; (not) yet; more; (more) still; at least

1

national isolation; closing the country (to foreigners); sakoku; policy of national isolation enacted by the Tokugawa shogunate

1

sleep; sleeping; inactivity; death

1

(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season

1

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

14

Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture); sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)

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country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); (arch.) province (of Japan)

3

auntie; older woman

1

good morning

8

suffix for familiar person

1

fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet

1

to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside

1

honorific/polite/humble prefix

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vegetable

1

to come off; to be removed; to disappear (of pain, a fever, etc.); to be caught; to be harvested; to be interpreted (as); to be taken (as)

1

to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on

2

you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...

8

Shinshichi

1

children

2

be; is

8

terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)

1

Kumakichi

3

countryside; country; 50-home township (comprised of 2-3 neighbourhoods)

15

people; (all) persons; you (usu. plural); various

2

coming; going; being (somewhere); come; go; stay

1

nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible

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to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)

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

11

slightly good luck (as a fortune telling result)

30

oh!; good heavens!; ugh!; oh no!; ah!; the penny drops!

10

part; portion; amount; worth (as in "two days' worth"); one's means; one's place; one's duty

1

cunning; wiliness; craftiness

1

to do

15

today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays

4

horse riding; horseback riding; horseback rider

8

tuber; taro; yokel; bumpkin; dud; worthless thing

6

boy; juvenile; young boy; youth; lad

3

behind; rear; after; later; remainder; the rest; more (e.g. five more minutes)

1

to become; to amount to

3

companion; partner; other party; addressee; opponent (sports, etc.)

1

thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality

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