pluralizing suffix; or so; rough indicator of direction, location, amount, etc.; nominalizing suffix
elopement; running away with a lover
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
married couple; husband and wife; man and wife
(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season
that day; the very same day
(husked grains of) rice; staple (product, etc.); necessity; (online) comment
to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be bothered; to be inconvenienced; to be badly off; to be hard up
state; condition; the way things should be; ideal state; truth
at that time; in those days
distant look; faraway look
to give (an example); to list; to summon up (e.g. all of one's energy); to gather; to arrest (a criminal); to capture; to nominate (e.g. for a position)
sometime; someday; one day; some time or other; the other day; in due course
to be on track; to be going to plan; to enter orbit
life circumstances; lifestyle; (family) finances
to become better; to improve
to forget; to leave carelessly; to be forgetful of; to forget about; to forget (an article)
to hit something aimed at (maliciously); to hit a prize (lottery, etc.)
sometimes; at intervals; occasionally; on occasion; from time to time
halting (speech); faltering; stammering
to talk about; to speak of; to recite; to chant; to indicate; to show
father; dad; husband; you (of an elderly person older than the speaker); he
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
schoolgirl; female student
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
to obtain; to get; to procure; to win; to secure
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
attachment; adhesion; insistence; tenacity; fixation; obsession
to cut off and throw away; to abandon; to disregard; to discard (numbers after a certain decimal place); to drop; to cut (someone) down
clean; clear; pure; honest; clean
fairy tale; fairy story; nursery tale
to become ...-ish; to appear like ...; to have a touch of ...; to become stained with ...; to become steeped with ...; to become smeared with ...
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)
as one would expect from ...; given that ... (naturally ...); precisely because ...; all the more because of ...; on account of ...; ... being what it is
innermost depths of one's heart
to shake; to jolt; to shake (e.g. the political world); to disturb; to put off a batter (by varying one's type of pitch)
scenery; scene; landscape; scene (e.g. of a crime)
only; merely; but; no more than
(all) through (e.g. the night); throughout (e.g. the year); within (e.g. the week); in the course of (e.g. today); all over; throughout (e.g. the world)
model; dummy; model (profession); fashion model; model (of a vehicle, machine, etc.); version; model (e.g. mathematical)
tenacity; persistence; obsession; implacability