to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
the end; closing; being done for; that's it; that's enough; that's all
story; tale; talk; discussion
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
shopping; purchased goods
place; location; room; space; basho; wrestling tournament
to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke
various; all sorts of; variety of; (arch.) various colors (colours)
supermarket; subtitles; telop; superheterodyne; super
to fold (clothes, umbrella); to close (a shop, business); to vacate
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
morning; breakfast; (arch.) next morning
day; days; sun; sunshine; (the) day; daytime; date
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
washing machine (laundry)
to wash; to cleanse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore)
scrubbing hard; scrubbing clean
honorific/polite/humble prefix
behind; rear; after; later; remainder; the rest; more (e.g. five more minutes)
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
to accomplish; to fulfill; to carry out
cooperation; collaboration
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.
together (with); at the same time; in a lump
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
disagreeable; detestable; unpleasant; reluctant
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
liked; well-liked; in love (with); loved; faddism; eccentricity