chapter one; first chapter
every day; daily; day after day; days (e.g. good old days)
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
(way of) life; living; livelihood; life circumstances
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
summons; summonsing; citation; subpoena; arraigning; calling
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
at last; finally; barely; narrowly; just
soft to the touch (e.g. fur, feathers); fluffy; to stroke (something fluffy); to rub; to pat
release; unleashing; liberation; deallocation (of computer memory)
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
living; life (one's daily existence); livelihood
to reach the point that; to come to be that; to turn into
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
town; block; street; road; 109.09 m; 0.99 hectares
to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ...; given that ...
to associate with; to keep company with; to go out with; to go along with; to follow someone's lead; to accompany someone
to decide to; to pretend that; to make a practice of doing; to make it a rule to
lodging; inn; house; home; home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)
outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else
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.
first of all; at once; right away; for now; for the time being
market (financial, stock, domestic, etc.); marketplace; exchange; (street) market
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
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
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
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.)
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...
various; all sorts of; variety of; (arch.) various colors (colours)
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
to line up; to set up; to enumerate; to itemize; to be equal (to); to compare well (with)