prologue; prolog; Prolog (Programming in Logic)
pain; ache; soreness; damage; injury; wear
that day; the very same day
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
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
storehouse; warehouse; godown
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
to wake up; to sober up; to come to one's senses; to become enlightened
stinking; smelly; suspicious; fishy; clumsy; unskilled
tedious; boring; being fed up with
bad; poor; poor (quality); inferior; evil; sinful; ugly
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
next (to); adjoining; adjacent; house next door; neighbouring house; next-door neighbour
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
breathing of a sleeping person
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to be heard; to be audible; to be said to be; to be reputed
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
little girl; maiden; young lady; (arch.) female between 17 and 20 years old (ritsuryo period)
to sleep; to die; to rest (in peace); to lie idle (e.g. of resources); to lie unused; (arch.) to close one's eyes
first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
until now; so far; up to the present
incident; affair; happening; event
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.
rumination; regurgitation; chewing the cud; turning over in one's mind; thinking over something; pondering
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
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
name; given name; first name
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
second-year student; biennial
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
to give birth; to bear (child); to lay (eggs); to produce; to yield; to give rise to
by myself; in person; by oneself