first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
counter for stories, episodes of TV series, etc.
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
merciless; ruthless; pitiless; unfeeling
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
beast (i.e. any animal other than man); person reborn into the animal realm; brute (i.e. a contemptible human being); damn it; damn
world; society; life; lifetime; age; era; reign
uncertainty; transiency; impermanence; mutability
-ness; indicates assertion; come; come now
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to lament; to grieve; to regret; to deplore
god; deity; incredible; fantastic; (arch.) Emperor (of Japan); (arch.) thunder
cruel; brutal; ruthless; merciless; inhuman
to get angry; to get mad; to tell someone off; to scold; to be angular; to be square
reason; logic; sense; natural way of things
violence; oppression; high-handedness; tyranny; despotism
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
oneself (itself, etc.); I; me; you; by oneself (itself, etc.); interjection expressing anger or chagrin
powerlessness; helplessness; incompetent
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 curse; to put a curse on; to detest intensely
above anything else; above all; more than anything; best; greatest; excellent
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at
to bear a grudge against; to resent; to blame; to curse; to feel bitter towards
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
at this juncture; after all this time; at this stage; now
what; how many; many; a lot of; several; a few
meaning; significance; sense
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
tear; tears; lachrymal secretion; sympathy
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.)
bygones; the past; past event
to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed
to finish; to stop; to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to put away; to put back
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
to be broken; to break; to fall through; to come to nothing