seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...
other people's affairs; somebody else's problem
to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention
lots of; a ton of; a mountain of; piles of; heaps of; so many
mother's side of family; maternal (grandfather, uncle, etc.)
legitimate; orthodox; traditional
father's side of family; paternal (grandfather, uncle, etc.)
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
boy; son; baby boy; young man
name; given name; first name
to be packed (with); to be full (space, schedule, etc.); to be blocked (road, pipe, nose, etc.); to be clogged; to shorten (width, interval, etc.); to shrink (shirt, word form, etc.); to be at a loss
by the way; incidentally; even if; no matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)
ceiling; ceiling price; (price) ceiling
it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...
illness (usu. excluding minor ailments, e.g. common cold); disease; bad habit; bad behaviour; crazy; insane
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
to be absent; to take a day off; to rest; to have a break; to go to bed; to (lie down to) sleep
nervousness; oversensitivity
trivial; not amounting to much
to be relieved; to feel relieved
action; conduct; behaviour; behavior; mobilization; mobilisation
having in mind; happening to know of; idea
serious; earnest; real sword (as opposed to a wooden practice weapon)
to turn towards; to point
I'm sorry; my apologies; excuse me; pardon me
won't; hasn't; isn't; won't you
what kind of; what sort of; what; no matter what (kind of); whatever; any
living; life (one's daily existence); livelihood
any; anything; whatever; I am told; I hear; I understand
to talk together; to chat together
easy; likely to ...; have a tendency to ...; easy to ...
for example; for instance; e.g.
grandfather; male senior-citizen
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
to hate; to dislike; to loathe
disinheritance; disowning
just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)
was it?; I think it was ...; if I've got it right; (I, we) used to ...; I remember ...; it was ...
everyone; anyone; no one; nobody
celebrated personage; big-wig; person in a high position
how; in what way; how (much); to what extent; however (much); no matter how
concrete; definite; specific; material; substantial
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
(poor) treatment; (bad) behavior; behaviour; action; act