precautions; warnings; matters to be attended to; things to note; suggestions; hints
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
story; tale; talk; discussion
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
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 pick up; to find; to gather
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
habit (often a bad habit, i.e. vice); tendency; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; crease; wrinkle
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
position (where one is standing); place where one stands; position; stance; standpoint
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
original story; original version; this volume
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
previously; before; first; before (something or someone else); beforehand; in advance
that way; that direction; there; that (one); you; your family
honorific/polite/humble prefix
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
please (give me); please (do for me)
please; kindly; I beg of you; by all means; without fail
well; properly; best regards; please remember me; just like ...; as though one were ...
to desire; to wish; to beg; to request; to have something done for oneself
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
kinako; roasted soybean flour; roasted soy flour
under 1 year old (of a baby); (lit.) 0 years old
to wake up; to awake; to perk up; to awaken (to the truth, etc.); to come to a realization; to come to one's senses
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
myself; yourself; I; me; you
than; from; out of; except; but; more
grass; weed; (arch.) ninja; not genuine; substandard; LOL
to surround; to encircle; to besiege; to lay siege to; to play (go, shogi, etc.)
hot; warm; passionate; impassioned; on everybody's mind; on the radar
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
vague; ambiguous; shady; disreputable; fuzzy
sense; sensation; feeling; intuition
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
to crawl; to creep; to slither; to wriggle; to trail (of vines, flowers, etc.); to spread
(following a verb) to be sure to; to do (something) so that ...; to make sure to; to try to
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward