indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
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)
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
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 know; to be aware (of); to sense; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
... years old; age (of) ...
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
at that time; in those days
memory; recollection; remembrance; memory; storage
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
to pass (of time); to elapse
consciousness; becoming aware (of); awareness; mano-vijnana (mental consciousness, cognizer of sensory information)
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
tightly (holding on); firmly; strongly (built); solidly; properly; well
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
to take root (of a plant); to strike root; to root; to become established (e.g. of an idea, a movement); to take hold; to take root
surroundings; environs; circumference
collapse; break; cave-in; market decline; market crash
to go; to move (towards); to move through; to travel across; to go (well, badly, etc.); to proceed; to do (in a particular way)
thunderous roar; roaring sound
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
field of vision; visibility; view; visual field; (one's) ken
to cover fully; to wrap around
complete darkness; total darkness; pitch darkness
alone; by oneself; on one's own
solitude; loneliness; isolation
to cry; to shed tears; to suffer (from); to be troubled (by); to accept (an unreasonable request, loss, etc.); to do reluctantly
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
everything; all; the whole; entirely; completely; wholly
together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
while; even though; despite
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
he; she; that person; (arch.) you
to show; to display; to make (something or someone) look ...; to present an appearance of ...; to make (something) worth watching; to be entertaining; to have (something) looked at (by a specialist)
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
to fade (of a colour); to grow dull in color (colour); to lose vividness; to lose freshness; to grow stale