several; a number of; quantity; amount; counting; figures; number
10^8; 100,000,000; hundred million
breaking through; breakthrough; surmounting; overcoming; exceeding; passing
infinity; infinitude; eternity; infinite; limitless
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
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
not yet known; unknown; strange
frontier (esp. the American frontier); frontier (of a field); forefront (of science, technology)
come; come now; well; who knows; well now; let's see
to begin a trip; to depart; to embark; to die; to pass away; to depart this life
myself; yourself; I; me; you
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
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.
to spin; to make yarn; to spin (a tale); to assemble (e.g. words); to put together
reality; actuality; hard fact
lovely; dear; beloved; pitiable; pathetic; piteous
I; me; oneself; (arch.) you; (arch.) prefix indicating familiarity or contempt
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
field of vision; view; one's outlook (e.g. on life); one's horizons
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to stand; to rise; to find oneself (e.g. in a difficult position); to depart (on a plane, train, etc.)
one; for one thing; only; (not) even; just (e.g. "just try it"); some kind of; one type of
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!
mind; heart; spirit; the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.)
to jump up; to spring up; to move around; to bounce up and down; to pound (of one's heart, e.g. with excitement); to throb
large text that appears in ads or brochures to catch the reader's attention (in copywriting)
to imagine; to picture; to figure; to see
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
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
literally; to the letter; literal
once in a lifetime; the first and last occurrence (event, experience) of one's lifetime
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole