chapter one; first chapter
fourth day of the month; four days
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
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
party; set; gang; company; person
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
inn town; post town; post-station town
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
morning; breakfast; (arch.) next morning
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
pout; displeasure; ill humor; ill humour; sullenness
extremely; in the extreme; knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness); boundless (e.g. universe, ocean); limitless
face; visage; look; expression; honor; honour
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 do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
tail (animal); tail end; tip
arbor; arbour; suffix forming the final part of the pseudonyms of some writers and performers; suffix forming the final part of the name of a restaurant
your husband; her husband
mass; mass (media, production, etc.); masturbation
cart (esp. a food cart); stall; festival float; portable shrine dedicated to a god and shaped like a house; stage prop fashioned after a large building; framework (of a house, etc.)
to borrow; to have a loan; to hire; to rent; to buy on credit
always; all the time; never; usual; regular
passage; path; route; one's way
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
people; men and women; each person; everybody
suspicious-looking; fishy
seeming; giving the appearance of; giving one the feeling of
one's line of sight; one's gaze; one's eyes (looking); glance; gaze; look
to turn towards; to point
while; during; while; although; all; both
street stall; stand; booth
limits; boundary; domain; area (e.g. in programming languages)
north; the North; northern territories; North Korea; (arch.) north wind
end (e.g. of street); tip; beginning; start; odds and ends; scrap
to aim at (for, to do, to become); to try for; to have an eye on; to go toward; to head for
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)