time; hour; season; suitable time; opportunity; chance
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
lunch break; noon recess; noon rest period
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
place; location; room; space; sumo tournament
magic; sorcery; witchcraft; magic tricks (with large-scale props)
learning; scholarship; study; study of ...; -ology; -ics
(large) building; public building; hall
school building; schoolhouse
at; in; at; when; by; with
suffix for familiar person
continuously; the whole time; much (more); (by) far; far (away); long (ago, before, after)
you; buddy; monarch; ruler; he; she
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
How did you like ...?; How about ...?; What's going on?; How's it going?
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
good-looking guy; handsome man; hunk; Adonis; cool guy
I; me; you; (arch.) manservant
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
to associate with; to keep company with; to go out with; to go along with; to follow someone's lead; to accompany someone
yes?; no?; isn't it?; is it?
I'm sorry; my apologies; excuse me; pardon me
declining; refusal; rejection; announcement; notice
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.)
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
to be affected; to put on airs; to act like (something one isn't); to pretend to be
confession (to a crime, wrongdoing, etc.); admission; professing one's feelings (to someone one wants to go out with); declaration of love; profession (of faith); confession (of sins)
speech; address; curtain speech; prologue; way of speaking; manner of speech
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.
(cutting) with a single stroke; lopping off (branches, etc.); (cutting hair) short; drastically (slash a budget, etc.); resolutely; ruthlessly (discard, etc.)
to interrupt; to obstruct (a view, someone's way, etc.); to block (light, wind, etc.); to intercept; to cut off
language; dialect; word; phrase; speech; (manner of) speaking
(carved) statue; sculpture
like; similar to; as with; in the same way
to harden; to solidify; to become firm; to become certain; to gather (together); to assemble
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
to put one's palms together (e.g. when praying or asking for something); to place one's hands together; to compete against someone; to play (a game, match, etc.) against someone
sound of thin metal or plastic surface caving in and springing back; action of quickly bowing or lowering one's head; with a bob of the head
to bow; to bow one's head; to apologize; to apologise; to bow to; to yield to
there; the spot; the place; then and there; on the spot; immediately
to leave; to depart; to take one's leave
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case