scissors; shears; clippers; hole punch
man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend
Shunou Masayuki (1964.1.19-)
long telephone conversation; being on the phone for a long time
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to associate with; to keep company with; to go out with; to go along with; to follow someone's lead; to accompany someone
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
to lift up; to hold up; to give; to offer; to devote; to sacrifice
scissors (in rock-paper-scissors)
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
bad; poor; poor (quality); inferior; evil; sinful; ugly
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
playing; play (margin between on and off, gap before pressing button or lever has an effect)
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 stop (an activity); to cease; to discontinue; to cancel; to abandon; to give up
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
you; buddy; monarch; ruler; he; she
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
register of names; list of names; roll; register; roster
to be placed on; to be set on; to be piled on; to appear (in print); to be mentioned; to be recorded
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
Bonin white-eye (Apalopteron familiare)
ward; borough; city (in Tokyo); district (e.g. electoral); section; zone (e.g. postal)
to live (of humans); to reside; to inhabit; to dwell; to abide
by the way; incidentally; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)
so far; up to now; hitherto; that's enough (for today); it ends here
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
name of a town; name of a street; name of a neighborhood
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ...; given that ...
(what) the heck; (why) in the world; one object; one body; one form; one style
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement