marriage partner; spouse; wife-to-be; husband-to-be; future spouse
patience; perseverance; persistence; tenacity; energy
bill (at a restaurant); check
string; cord; man who is financially dependent on a woman; gigolo; restrictions; conditions
acceptable; satisfactory; approval; being in favour; Pass (grade); Fair
uselessly; pointlessly; in vain; to no purpose; for nothing; idly
top of the foot; instep; dorsum of the foot; dorsum pedis
(not even) a little; (not even) a tiny bit
to well up (of tears, anger, joy, etc.); to surge up (within oneself); to rise; to feel nauseated; to feel sick
Catholic priest; abbe; reverend father; minister; padre
repentance; confession; penitence
torrential rain; heavy rain; cloudburst; downpour
inundation; submersion; flood
on-the-spot filming or photography; live filming (as opposed to animation); actual picture (as opposed to a drawing); real picture or story (as opposed to fiction, imaginary scene, etc.); describing actual scenes (in writing, drawings, paintings, etc.)
thoroughbred (horse); person of lineage; blue-blood
inconvenience; inexpediency; unhandiness
shiritori; word-chain game; word game in which players must give a word starting with the last syllable of the word given by the previous player
swelling; enlargement; becoming fat; hypertrophy
(arch.) kariginu (informal clothes worn by the nobility from the Heian period onwards); (during the Edo period) patterned kariginu
marsh; swamp; wetland; being hooked (on a video game, TV show, etc.)
marriage ceremony; wedding; nuptials
bad law; (arch.) evil ways; (arch.) evil way of doing things
tray; family; household; O-Bon; Bon Festival; gambler's den
(gay) cruising spot; (gay) pick-up joint (e.g. bar)
to leave word with (a person); to state in one's will; to leave (something) unsaid; to forget to mention
to call out to; to hail; to address; to appeal
recovery; rescue; recapture