to be; to come; to go; to be (doing)
stairs; stairway; staircase
to rise; to go up; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade; to get out (of water)
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
after all; because; but; even; too; as well
what kind of; what sort of; what; no matter what (kind of); whatever; any
very; greatly; immense; enormous; serious; grave
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
to become known; to come to light; to be known; to be understood; to clearly not amount to much; to be insignificant
just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well ...; I think ...
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
mom; mommy; mum; female proprietress (of a bar, etc.)
oh; oh my; oh dear; well, ...; er ...; why, ...
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
your home; your family; their home; (my) home
so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already
patrolling; one's rounds; inspection tour; watchman; patrolman
very much; exceedingly; extremely
cool; calm; composed; all right; fine; OK
yes; that is correct; um; errr; huh?; grrr
scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
mouse; rat; dark gray; slate gray
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
to sniff around; to snoop around; to nose about
above; over; top; summit; surface; on (top of); the above (in a piece of writing)
to jump up; to leap up; to fly up (into the sky); to soar up; to jump ahead; to skip ahead
to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)
in that way; thus; so; the same; so?
(not) anything; (nothing) at all; and everything else; and all; (not) at all; (not) in the least
to bring (something); to take along; to fetch; to get
what's the matter?; what's wrong?; what happened (to) ...?; what have you done (with) ...?; where is ...?
father; dad; husband; you (of an elderly person older than the speaker); he
to send; to dispatch; to see (someone) off; to escort; to bid farewell to (the departed); to say goodbye to; to spend (time)
to send; to forward; to hand over (e.g. money); indicates that the action is directed towards the speaker; indicates that the object of an action arrives at or is received by the speaker