care; attentiveness; attention; consideration (for others); solicitude
to build up; to establish; to form; to become (a state); to accomplish; to achieve; to change into
stuffing; packing; end (esp. the foot of a bridge); lowest-ranking guest at tea ceremony; tea master; endgame (esp. in shogi or used figuratively); sweet eel sauce
something small; something petty; trifle
to throw; to hurl; to give up; to abandon; to cast (a glance, shadow, doubt, etc.)
man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend
exerting care; attention; consideration; thoughtfulness
don't you think?; indicates question
thank you; thanks; much (thanks); very (sorry); quite; really; somehow
-ical; -ive; -like; -ish; (something) like; along the lines of
meddling; meddlesomeness; nosiness; meddler; buttinsky; busybody
to perceive; to grasp (the situation)
I see; that's right; indeed
strange; weird; wonder; mystery; cleverness; adroitness
consideration; concern; fear; worry; solicitude
no sooner than; as soon as; immediately after; at the thought of; when I think about
laying the groundwork; behind-the-scenes maneuvering; consensus-building process; digging around the roots of a tree (before transplanting)
very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave
as usual; as always; as ever; as before; still
to dominate (usu. one's husband)
banter; raillery; ridicule; teasing; making fun of
to show appreciation for (efforts, esp. by someone of equal or lower status); to thank for; to reward for
to be needed; to be wanted
discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude
normal; ordinary; normally; ordinarily; local train; train that stops at every station
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
giving and taking; exchange (of letters); arguing back and forth; (conversational) exchange
mischievous child; scamp; rascal; elf; imp
mild; calm; gentle; quiet; congenial; amicable
various; all sorts of; variety of; (arch.) various colors (colours)
how long; how much; to what extent
to pile up; to heap up; to stack up; to repeat many times over; to go through repeatedly; to accumulate
charge; cost; generation; age; era; a representative of; on behalf of
near; neighbourhood; nearly (e.g. "it took nearly one year"); close to; shortly; soon
to reach; to amount to; to be up to the task; to come up to; to compare with; to be a match (for)
to pile up; to accumulate