at least; at most; (even) just
reading partway; leaving half-read
to take; to carry (something) away; to bear
to snatch away; to dispossess; to steal
excuse me; pardon me; I'm sorry; thank you
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
end; finish; bounds; limits; delivery date (of a futures contract); finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki)
chief; main; principal; important
clicking one's tongue; tut-tut; smacking one's lips (with relish)
sound; noise; note; fame; Chinese-derived character reading
recently; lately; these days; nearest; closest
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
delicious; tasty; sweet; attractive; appealing; convenient
to be treated to a meal; to be given a meal
to take; to pick up; to pass; to hand; to get; to obtain; to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.)
by the way; incidentally; sometimes; occasionally; precisely (at that time); exactly
another place; somewhere else; outside (one's family or group); someone else; not caring for; being indifferent to
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
to have a cramp; to twitch; to stiffen (of a face, expression); to freeze; to shrink (of skin, due to a scar); to tauten
to face (each other); to be facing; to be directed toward (the future, etc.); to be in response to; to receive (a client, etc.); to compare with
to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)
if anything; if pushed I'd say; if I had to say
man; male; masculine gender
to lose; to be defeated; to succumb; to give in; to be inferior to; to break out in a rash due to (e.g. lacquer, shaving, etc.)
to take an attitude; to take a stance; to commit oneself; to assume a position
apt to (do); liable to; predominantly; mostly; ... reaps the rewards; ... takes the prize
something or other; one thing or another; this or that
suspicious; dubious; doubtful; unsure; untrustworthy; unreliable; strange
inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)
part; portion; amount; worth (as in "two days' worth"); one's means; one's place; one's duty
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
(following a verb) to be sure to; to do (something) so that ...; to make sure to; to try to
surely; certainly; without doubt
above; up; top; summit; surface; before; previous
to serve (in a bowl, on a plate, etc.); to dish out; to pile up; to heap up; to administer (medicine, poison); to dose out; to put into (e.g. information in a report, meaning in a statement)
cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with something; handling; administration
to (take out and) show; to demonstrate; to point out (finger, clock hand, needle, etc.); to indicate; to show
to be too numerous; to be too much
table; desk; counter for tables, desks, etc.; offering table before an altar (sometimes used in tea ceremony); tabletop incense burner
four; four years of age; ten o'clock (old time system); Burakumin; cross grips
chair; stool; post; office; position
middle; centre; center; midpoint; heart
main dish (e.g. meat, fish, but not rice); principal dish