to serve; to work for; to attend
practice; practising; experience
person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
to win the favour of (favor); to be acknowledged (e.g. by a superior); to measure up to
to be a live-in employee; to live in; to live with
link (e.g. in a chain of events); part (of a plan, campaign, activities, etc.); monocyclic
a (short) time; a while; one time (in the past); a period; (arch.) two-hour period
here and there; in places
stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; clumsy; unskilled
appearing and disappearing; slipping in and out of view
inevitable; necessary; certain; inevitability; necessity
for the first time in one's life
inconvenient; inexpedient; unfavourable; wrong; improper; objectionable
commuting to school; school commute
to be saved; to be rescued; to escape harm; to be spared damage; to be helped; to be saved trouble
about; roughly; generally; on the whole; completely; quite
four; four years of age; ten o'clock (old time system); Burakumin; cross grips
mostly; ordinarily; probably; most; almost all; ordinary
to follow; to pursue; to die right after a loved one; to kill oneself after the death of a loved one; to follow an example set by earlier generations (or one's master, etc.)
expectation; anticipation; hope; promising; rising; up-and-coming
gas; vapour; vapor; gaseous body
it's not like; it isn't as if
force; strength; capability; ability; efficacy; effect; effort
perception; intuition; the sixth sense
please remember me; please help me; please treat me well; please do; please take care of
conspicuously; noticeably; remarkably; especially; particularly
door; gate; opening; title page
diving; submerging; going underwater
hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)
giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
(piece of) rope; ordinary method
standing facing each other (e.g. mountains, buildings); standing opposite each other; confrontation; squaring off against (adversaries, armies, forces); standing off against
solid; firm; stout; burly; strong; sturdy
though; notwithstanding; although
just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as; at the moment that
slow; time-consuming; late (in the day); towards the end (of the day or night); later (than expected or usual); late
second (unit of time); arc second
lateness; tardiness; arriving late
zanbatō; long-handled Chinese anti-cavalry sword
to twist; to wrench; to puzzle over; to defeat easily