jpdb beta

serious relationship (esp. one with the prospect of marriage)

1

to rack one's brains

1

second daughter

1

third daughter

1

to be put in order; to be put to rights; to be disposed of; to be solved; to be finished; to be married (off)

2

agricultural revolution; agrarian revolution

2

positive; assertive; active; proactive; aggressive

1

stockpile; reserves; storing; stocking up; laying in (supplies)

2

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)

1

big; large; drastic; full-width cloth (approx. 72 cm wide for traditional Japanese clothing; approx. 140 cm wide for Western clothing)

2

increase

1

in appearance; to look at; judging from appearances

1

rejection; dismissal

1

giving something a try because it will not do any harm

1

to spread; to extend; to unfold; to open; to scatter about; to spread around

1

time; labour; labor

1

labour; labor; effort; toil; trouble

2

compensation; equivalent value; consideration

1

to be preeminent; to be outstanding

1

before one knows; unnoticed; unawares

1

farm (agriculture)

8

name; given name; title; fame; renown; pretext

5

perfectly fitting phrase

1

to make one's rounds; to patrol

1

equation; formula; ceremony; style; (arch.) enforcement regulations (of the ritsuryo)

15

be (that) as it may; having said that

1

indispensable; essential

1

burden; load; responsibility; bearing (a cost, responsibility, etc.); shouldering

5

planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation; collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn; series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs)

5

to be absent; to take a day off; to rest; to have a break; to go to bed; to (lie down to) sleep

2

use; adoption; acceptance; appointment; employment; engagement

5

three; three years of age

2

partition; division; separation; segmenting; splitting

2

fallow soil; idle field; set-aside; idled plot

4

in order; sequential; seriatim

1

alternation; change; relief; relay; shift; substitution (sports, etc.)

1

planting

3

rotation of crops

4

very; greatly; much; just about to; almost; very nearly

1

worst; horrible; horrid; in the worst case; if worst comes to worst

1

barren land; sterile soil; wasteland

1

fixed; settled; constant; definite; uniform; regularized

2

length of time; term

1

other than; excluding; without

1

alternation; change; relief; relay; shift; substitution (sports, etc.)

1

year after next

1

soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; soy

1

year; age; years; past one's prime; old age

1

cycle; period

1

method; process; manner; way; means; technique

2