assistant; helper; assistant (to a professor)
anesthesiologist; anaesthesiologist; anesthetist; anaesthetist
cherry tree; cherry blossom; fake buyer; paid audience; hired applauder; horse meat
suffix for familiar person
how; in what way; how about
to become less crowded; to thin out; to get empty; to be hungry
lively; full of spirit; energetic; healthy; well; fit
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
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
pudding (esp. custard); black hair dyed blond but where the roots have again turned black
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
change; alteration; substitute; rate of exchange
to do completely; to do accidentally; to do without meaning to; to happen to do
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
clerk; office worker; office staff
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
meeting; conference; session; assembly; council; convention
to begin; to start; to happen (again); to begin (anew); to date (from); to originate (in)
yes; that is correct; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?
magnificent; grand; majestic; splendid
betterment; improvement; kaizen (Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement)
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.
to advance; to move forward; to carry forward (plans, work, etc.); to proceed with; to raise; to elevate
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
hospitalization; hospitalisation
hospital department; department in the field of medical care
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
being enrolled (at a school); being registered; being a member (of a team, organization, etc.)
shortening; contraction; reduction; curtailment; abbreviation
thoroughness; completeness; consistency; thorough enforcement; seeing to it that a policy, etc. is carried out without exception
by (means of); by doing; due to; via; through
income; receipts; revenue
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)