Nihonjin no Kurashi no Katachi – Vocabulary list

話はなす

to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)

3

民みん俗ぞく学がく

folklore studies; folkloristics

2

興きょう味みを持もつ

to have an interest (in)

1

冷れい笑しょう

sneer; derision; scornful laugh; cold smile

1

不ぶ精しょう

indolence; laziness; sloth

3

きめこむ

to take for granted; to assume; to pretend (to be); to pose (as); to go through with (what one decided to do); to persist in doing

1

駄だ目め

no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not

4

なんだ

what!; oh; what the heck; what the; damn

1

東とう京きょう都と

Tokyo Metropolis (prefecture); Tokyo metropolitan area

2

炉ろ端ばた

fireside; hearth; by the fire

1

近きん郊こう

outskirts; environs (of a city); surrounding area; surroundings

2

だって

after all; because; but; even; too; as well

2

山さん麓ろく

foot of a mountain; base of a mountain

1

調しらべる

to examine; to look up; to investigate; to check up; to sense; to study

1

知しらせ

news; word; tidings; omen

1

見み果はてる

to see through to the finish; to be seen to the end

1

とどまる

to remain; to abide; to stay (in the one place); to be limited to; to be confined to; to only account for

4

じつをいうと

as a matter of fact; to tell the truth

2

穂ほ

ear (of a cereal plant); head; point (of a brush, spear, etc.); tip; crest (of a wave); scion (in grafting)

11

麦むぎ

wheat; barley; oat (oats)

15

心こころのなか

inside one's heart; in one's mind

5

舂うす

millstone; mortar

1

暮ぼ春しゅん

late spring; third month of the lunar calendar

1

弟で子し

pupil; disciple; adherent; follower; apprentice; young person

1

大たい

nth year in the Taishō era (1912.7.30-1926.12.25)

1

魯ろ

Lu (Chinese vassal state existing during the Spring and Autumn period)

1

几き董とう

Kitou

4

ど

precisely; exactly; plumb; damn; stupid; cursed

3

布ぬの引びき

stretching of cloth

4

滝たき

waterfall; (arch.) rapids

5

見み

looking; viewing; (please) try (to)

1

まかり

emphatic verbal prefix; humble verbal prefix

1

前ぜん述じゅつ

aforementioned; above-mentioned

2

神こう戸べ

Kobe (city)

1

山さん中ちゅう

in the mountains; among the mountains

1

一いっ行こう

party; group; troop; one act; one action; one deed

1

七なな

seven

9

二に百ひゃく

200; two hundred

10

歳さい月げつ

time; years

1

一いっ変ぺん

complete change; about-face

1

失しつ望ぼう

disappointment; despair

2

舂うすづく

to pound (rice, etc.)

3

まさに

exactly; surely; right then; just then; just (about to); on the verge (of doing or happening)

3

臼うす

millstone; mortar

1

搗つく

to hull (rice, barley, etc.); to pound (rice); to polish (rice); to stamp (ore)

1

技ぎ巧こう

technique; finesse

1

越こえる

to cross over; to cross; to pass through; to exceed; to surpass; to be more (than)

4

づく

to become (a state, condition, etc.)

1

畠はたけ

field (for fruits, vegetables, etc.); cultivated land; field (of specialization); sphere; womb; birth

10

黄き色いろい

yellow; high-pitched (voice); shrill

2

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Vocabulary list: Nihonjin no Kurashi no Katachi