jpdb beta

room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable

5

to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding

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everyone; anyone; no one; nobody

2

to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing

22

always; all the time; never; usual; regular

6

this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")

16

head (of a household, etc.); leader; owner; proprietor; subject (of a rumour, etc.); doer (of a deed); guardian spirit (e.g. long-resident beast, usu. with mystical powers)

1

be; is

4

she; her; girlfriend

16

to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend

5

desk; copy editor

1

chair; stool; post; office; position

2

small quantity; little; little while; short distance

10

to pull; to tug; to draw (attention, sympathy, etc.); to attract (e.g. interest); to draw back (e.g. one's hand); to draw in (one's chin, stomach, etc.); to draw (a card, mahjong tile, etc.)

4

to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen

31

someone; somebody

2

to sit; to squat; to assume (a position); to hold steady; to hold still

9

trace; vestige; mark; sign; evidence

1

um; er; nuh-uh; no; oof

3

to be able to reach; to be within one's reach; to be able to afford; to be near (a certain age)

1

a bit more; a bit longer

2

to speak; to hear a voice

1

muffled voice

1

to be heard; to be audible; to be said to be; to be reputed

5

curtain; curtains

1

to partition; to divide; to direct; to manage; to settle accounts; to assume a crouching posture (at the start of a bout)

1

bed

4

direction; orientation; bearing; course (e.g. of action)

4

somehow or other; for some reason or another; without knowing why

2

that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...

12

opposite side; other side; over there; that way; the other party; the other person

2

to look into; to peer in

1

throat; singing voice

1

strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance

3

sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading

5

to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to

12

book; document; calligraphy (esp. Chinese); penmanship; handwriting; letter

2

to reach; to touch; to be delivered; to arrive; to be attentive; to be scrupulous

2

to come to the point; to get straight to the point; to speak frankly; to speak plainly; to talk straight

1

floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river

5

crawling on all fours; getting on one's hands and knees; falling flat

1

below; down; bottom; beneath; underneath; just after; right after

4

to put out one's hand; to extend one's arm; to reach (for); to try one's hand at (something new)

1

angle

1

skirt

1

it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...

6

bare feet

1

thigh; buttocks; arse; ass

1

half

2

approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like

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