I; me; personal (affairs, etc.); private; selfishness; partiality
certainly; of course; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how); without even; without so much as; at the (least, earliest, etc.)
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
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.)
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
from now on; after this; in the future; from here; from this point
point; tip; head (of a line); front; first; before; (the way) ahead
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
intention; plan; belief; assumption; estimate; estimation
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
translation; version (e.g. "English version")
wound; injury; chip; crack; flaw; defect
origin; source; base; basis; cause; ingredient; material
reasoning; inference; deduction; mystery or detective genre
library; book collection; paperback book
arrival; coming (e.g. something awaited); advent
look!; there!; here!; that is
honorific/polite/humble prefix
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
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
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to make sound (of an animal); to call; to cry; to make a meld call (e.g. pung, kong)
to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
song; singing; classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka); modern poetry
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 sing; to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
storm; tempest; uproar; hullabaloo; storm (e.g. of protest)
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; take care (so as); hoping or wishing for something
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
that day; the very same day
morning; breakfast; (arch.) next morning