today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
video (esp. digital); video clip; animation; animated cartoon; in-betweens (animation)
theme; topic; subject matter; motif; project; slogan
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
painful; sore; cringy; embarrassing
embankment; bank; beef sinew stewed in miso and mirin
to fall down; to fall over; to turn out; to play out; to abandon Christianity (and convert to Buddhism); to apostatize
injury; wound; mistake; accident; loss
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.
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
bang; bam; noontime signal gun (carried out early Meiji to Taishō); noon gun; last round in a game of 12 rounds; precisely
to bump into; to run into; to encounter; to meet with; to clash (of opinions, people, etc.); to conflict
having a headache; racking one's brains; troubling over something
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
various; a variety of; variously; in various ways; various things; this and that
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about
number one; first; best; most; game; round
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
about; on; regarding; per; for every
story; tale; talk; discussion
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
from now; from this moment; henceforth
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
occurrence; happening; incident; event
at that time; at that moment; then; on that occasion
daughter; girl (i.e. a young, unmarried woman)
pregnancy; conception; gestation
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed
January; first month of the lunar calendar
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
heat; fever; temperature; zeal; passion
to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to
nasal mucus; dripping nose; snot