indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
day; days; sun; sunshine; (the) day; daytime; date
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
heroine; female protagonist; heroine; heroic woman; brave woman
... years old; age (of) ...
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country); province (of Japan)
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
still; as yet; (not) yet; more; (more) still; at least
honorific/polite/humble prefix; honorific suffix
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.)
to ask; to enquire; to query
to reach the point where ...; to come to ...; to come to be that ...; to start to ...; to begin to ...
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 go out to meet; to receive; to call for; to summon; to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family); to take (e.g. a wife)
district; region; the country; countryside; civilian society
nobility; aristocracy; peerage
capital (esp. Kyoto, Japan's former capital); seat of government; capital (of music, fashion, etc.); city (e.g. of light); location of the Imperial Palace
upper stream; upper course; upstream; upper classes
Reinhard; Reinhardt; Reinhart
eldest son (may be the only son); first-born son
Claus; Crouse; Klaus; Kraus; Krauss; Krausz
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
to call (someone) to (the door, phone, etc.); to tell (someone) to come; to call up (on the phone); to invoke (e.g. a subroutine); to call; to open (e.g. a file)
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
to tell; to inform; to announce; to indicate; to signal; to mark
only; merely; but; no more than
single word; a few words; brief comment
tearing up and discarding (e.g. documents); destruction; annulment; cancellation; reversal (of an original ruling on appeal); quashing
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
from the beginning; from the first; of course; not to mention ...; not only ... but also ...
difference in social standing; difference in social position
refusal; rejection; denial; veto
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
yes; that is correct; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?
breaking off an engagement