form; shape; state; condition; letter; correspondence
Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)
serving (of food); helping; chilled soba served on a dish (often on a wicker basket or in a shallow steaming basket) with dipping sauce
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean
this world; this life; world of the living
feeling; sense; impression
muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line
shell (e.g. electron shell)
to drive in (e.g. nail, stake); to hammer in; to hit (a ball, etc.); to drive; to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles); to input (data)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
wedge; chock; linchpin; tie; bond
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
one; for one thing; only; (not) even; just (e.g. "just try it"); some kind of; one type of
to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do
grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude
thanks; gratitude; manners; etiquette; bow; reward
painful; sore; cringy; embarrassing; exceeding
to be needed; to be wanted
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
to (take out and) show; to demonstrate; to point out (finger, clock hand, needle, etc.); to indicate; to show
all you want; as much as one wants
human being; human; person; character (of a person)
first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)
knowledge; awareness; consent; acceptance; forgiving; pardoning
to go; to come; to be defeated; to collapse; to be annoyed; to be nonplussed
wish; desire; hope; prospect; expectation; (one's) hopes
finally; at last; barely; narrowly; gradually; little by little
(sound of) laughter; laughing voice
coincidence; chance; by chance; unexpectedly; contingency
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
sure; certain; reliable; trustworthy; If I'm not mistaken; If I remember correctly
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
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
to have meaning; to be meaningful
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
question (e.g. on a test); problem; problem (e.g. societal, political); question; question (i.e. doubt); public discussion
first of all; at once; right away; for now; for the time being
the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life
materials; data; document
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study