one's family; family member
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
father; dad; papa; pa; pop; daddy
to be away from home; to be out of the house
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
many; numerous; large amount of; large quantity of; frequent; common
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
greater than ...; bigger ...
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...; wow
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such
place; spot; address; district; area; one's house; point
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
warm; mild; (pleasantly) hot; considerate; kind; genial
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
to descend (e.g. a mountain); to go down; to alight (e.g. from bus); to get off; to step down; to retire; to be granted
what; you-know-what; that thing; whatsit; whachamacallit; penis; (one's) thing
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.
I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
healthy; sound; wholesome
environment; surroundings; circumstances
first of all; to begin with; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
cleaning; sweeping; dusting; scrubbing
honorific/polite/humble prefix
next (to); adjoining; adjacent; house next door; neighbouring house; next-door neighbour
suffix for familiar person
to differ (from); to be different; to be wrong; to be incorrect; to become abnormal; to go wrong
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
reason; cause; meaning; sense; (good) sense; reason
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
clothes (esp. Western clothes); clothing; dress; counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, puffs of a cigarette, etc.
to sew; to stitch; to weave one's way (e.g. through a crowd)
(fighting) spirit; motivation; shout (for getting in the right mood to deal with something, etc.); cheer; kiai; short shout when performing an attacking move
to enter; to come in; to join (a club, company, etc.); to enter (a university, the army, etc.); to be contained (in); to be included (in); to (be able to) fit (in a container, building, etc.)
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
to become stormy; to become rough (of the sea); to fall into ruin; to become neglected; to become rough (of skin); to get chapped
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
is not; am not; are not; isn't it?
putting on a brave face; put-on cheeriness; pretending one is fine; show of courage; bravado; Dutch courage