to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
to complete decisively; to do to completion
because; as; since; because of that; therefore; accordingly
refreshingly; with a feeling of relief; shapely; neatly; cleanly; without trouble; clearly
too; also; still; as before; even so; either way
older sister; lass; young lady
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
light; illumination; ray; happiness; hope; influence; power
until now; till now; up to now; up to the present; so far
to persevere; to persist; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post
hey!; say!; I say!; I; me
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
to appear to want to have (something); to obviously want; to seem to want; to indicate a wish for
to be sufficient; to be enough; to be worth doing; to be worthy of; to do (the job); to serve
to go; to move (towards); to move through; to travel across; to go (well, badly, etc.); to proceed; to do (in a particular way)
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
sentence-ending particle expressing doubt; sentence-ending particle expressing a rhetorical question
heh-heh; hee-hee; ha ha; (arch.) female genitals; (arch.) vagina; (arch.) vulva
opposite side; other side; over there; ahead; destination; there (somewhere distant, esp. abroad)
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
unit; (small) group (esp. in music or entertainment); band
to break; to destroy; to wreck; to ruin; to break (a bill, etc.)
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
yes; that is correct; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?
seiza; kneeling with the tops of the feet flat on the floor, and sitting on the soles
like; as; so that; in order that; be sure to; I hope (that)
to be careful; to pay attention; to take care
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
onigiri; rice ball (often triangular, sometimes with a filling and wrapped in nori)
to receive favor; to receive assistance; to receive help; to be looked after; to be taken care of; to become dependent (on)
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
daily; everyday; days (e.g. of one's youth); every day; day after day
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!