time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
to return; to come home; to leave (of a guest, customer, etc.); to get home; to get to home plate
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
Mr; master; Ms; miss; (arch.) sir; (arch.) madam
participation; joining; entry
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
meeting; conference; session; assembly; council; convention
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
club activities; extracurricular activities
row of houses; every house; each house; all; totally
rest; recess; vacation; holiday; dormancy (of a silkworm prior to moulting)
knowing; being aware (of); (an) acquaintance
street; road; traffic; coming and going; flow (of water, air, etc.); passage; transmission (of sound)
school building; schoolhouse
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
almost; nearly; hardly; barely; large majority; large proportion
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
kick the can (children's game)
mass meeting; convention; tournament; competition; grand event
holding (a conference, exhibition, etc.); opening; hosting (e.g. the Olympics)
honorific/polite/humble prefix
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...
to go; to move (towards); to move through; to travel across; to go (well, badly, etc.); to proceed; to do (in a particular way)
best; supreme; wonderful; highest; maximum; most
seems; I think; I guess; right?; don't you agree?
such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!