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Japan

1

your house; your home; your husband; your organization; you

1

sword fight; sword play

1

playing at (something); game of make-believe; something done together

1

be; is; isn't it?

4

story; tale; talk; discussion

1

indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!

5

Mr; Mrs; Miss; politeness marker

4

to hurry; to rush; to hasten; to make something happen sooner

1

village

2

escape; getting away (from); getting out (of); prolapse; proptosis

1

suffix for familiar person

7

thin (of an object); pale; light; watery; thin; weak (taste, etc.); little (affection, etc.)

1

wicket gate; wooden door; entrance to an entertainment venue (i.e. sumo arena, etc.); barrier gate; checkpoint gate

1

large crowd; large herd; large flock; large school; large shoal; large swarm

1

to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become

7

to tear; to rip; to break through (cordon, opponent's defense, etc.); to breach; to defeat; to beat; to break (e.g. silence)

1

to calm down; to compose oneself; to calm down; to settle down; to settle down (in a location, job, etc.); to settle in; to be settled (of an arrangement, conclusion, etc.)

2

to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)

4

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

2

legs and loins; lower body; foundations; underpinnings

1

bad; poor; poor (quality); inferior; evil; sinful; ugly

2

old person; elderly person; trustee of the Japan Sumo Association; retired high-ranking wrestler who is licensed to coach and receives retirement pay; senior statesman (of the Tokugawa shogunate); important local official (under the Tokugawa Shogunate)

1

approximately; about; only; nothing but; just (finished, etc.)

1

almost; nearly; hardly; barely; large majority; large proportion

1

bedridden; confined to bed

1

to take (someone) with one; to bring along; to go with; to be accompanied by

2

thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work

18

to be able to do; to be possible; to be good at; to do well; to come into existence; to form; to be made

4

not having long to live

1

old people; grandparents

1

to mind (negative nuance); to care about; to worry; to pay undue (amount of) attention to (something)

1

only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to

4

but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...

5

to survive; to live long

1

to be late; to be delayed; to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.); to lag behind; to be bereaved of; to be preceded by (someone) in death

1

such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!

4

as is; as it is; as things are; like this; this way; at this rate

1

aaah!; oooh!; oh no!; oh boy!

1

this way; this direction; here; this (one); I; me

1

first-person plural (or singular); second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)

3

always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively

1

all; everyone; everybody

1

to help (someone) out of trouble; to rescue; to save

1

to the end; to the last

1

to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)

1

phew; whew

1

hedge; risk avoidance

1

fragment; broken piece; chip; ounce (of truth, conscience, etc.); trace; shred

1

absolutely; definitely; absolute; unconditional; absoluteness

2