right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
bird; bird meat (esp. chicken meat); fowl; poultry
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
department (in an organization, company, etc.); division; club (at a school, university, etc.); team; part; portion
thief; burglar; robber; theft; burglary; robbery
Eurasian magpie (Pica pica); common magpie
compilation (of a text); editing; volume (of a text); completed literary work
Haruki Murakami (1949.1.12-; writer)
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; look; stare; notice
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
six (long cylindrical things)
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
four; 4; four years of age; ten o'clock (in the old time system); burakumin; cross grips
about; on; regarding; per; for every
barn (for storage); shed; outbuilding
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
to die; to pass away; to lose spirit; to lose vigor; to cease; to stop
to go; to move (towards); to move through; to travel across; to go (well, badly, etc.); to proceed; to do (in a particular way)
horse; horse racing; promoted bishop; knight (court card in mekuri karuta and unsun karuta)
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
sherbet (frozen dessert); sorbet
high; tall; expensive; high-priced; high (level); above average (in degree, quality, etc.)
tower; steeple; spire; stupa; pagoda; dagoba
deep (hole, forest, snow, etc.); dense (e.g. fog); thick (e.g. weeds, woods); close (e.g. relationship); deep (involvement); intense (e.g. longing, flavor); severe
or; either ... or; maybe; perhaps; some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...
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.
far; distant; distant (past); remote (in time); distant (relationship or kinship); having little to do (with someone); far (from something else in quality, degree, etc.)
to be separated; to be apart; to leave; to go away; to leave (a job, etc.); to quit
to dry up (spring, pond, etc.); to run out
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
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.)