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
how (beautiful, tasty, etc.); what a ...; nothing worth mentioning; nothing special; of what name
this world; this life; world of the living
two equal parts; exactly two parts
feeling; sense; impression
muscle; tendon; vein; artery; fiber; fibre; line
shell (e.g. electron shell)
to drive in (a nail, stake, etc.); to hammer in; to hit (a ball, etc.); to drive; to fire into; to shoot into; 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 ...-ed; to be ...-ed; to (have the audacity to) do
grateful; thankful; welcome; appreciated; evoking gratitude
thanks; gratitude; manners; etiquette; bow; reward
painful; sore; cringy; embarrassing
to be needed; to be necessary; to be required; to be wanted; to need; to want
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; acceptance; consent; forgiving; pardoning
to sell; to betray; to sell out (one's friend, country, etc.); to make (oneself) known; to establish (a reputation) for oneself; to pick (a fight, quarrel, etc.)
to go; to come; to lose; to be defeated; to be stumped (by); to be at a loss; to visit (a shrine, grave, etc.)
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
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
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; for now; for the time being; anyway; at least
the past; bygone days; one's past (that one would prefer remained secret); past (tense); preterit; previous life
material; materials; data; information; documents
to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study