very; awfully; exceedingly; (not) at all; by no means; simply (cannot)
weather; fair weather; fine weather
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
to bloom; to flower; to blossom; (arch.) to rise up (of breaking waves)
old; aged; long; since long ago; of the distant past; long-ago
under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (someone's) side
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
book; volume; this; present; main; head; real
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 read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
to finish reading; to read through
behind; rear; after; later; remainder; the rest; more (e.g. five more minutes)
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
to approach; to draw near; to gather (in one place); to come together; to stop by (while on one's way to another place); to drop by; to grow old
new; novel; fresh; recent; latest; up-to-date
to borrow; to rent; to hire; to make use of (another's help, wisdom, etc.); to obtain; to use (for another purpose)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
phew; whew; huff; whoo; woohoo
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
truth; reality; proper; right; genuine; authentic
big; large; loud; extensive; spacious; important
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...; wow
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
in this way; like this; this (much); so; uh; er
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.)
to look at; to gaze at; to look out over; to get a view of; to look on (from the sidelines); to stand by and watch
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
(a) little; somewhat; somehow
various; a variety of; variously; in various ways; various things; this and that
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
to recall; to remember; to recollect
leaves turning red (in autumn); red leaves; autumn colours; fall colors
soon; before long; slowly; quietly; already; about time
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
end; ending; close; end of (one's) life; death
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)
time; years; days; the Moon and the Sun