jpdb beta

first day of summer (approx. May 6)

4

hey!; say!; I say!; I; me

2

hey!; hey!

1

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

3

yes; yeah; huh?; what?; 's; of

5

endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement

2

cooked rice; meal

3

yikes; oops; eep; wow; aargh

1

what; you-know-what; that thing; whatsit; whachamacallit; penis; (one's) thing

5

is not; am not; are not; isn't it?

1

hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo

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cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood

1

what!; oh; what the heck; what the; damn

6

this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence

3

you

1

or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; or, how should I put it,...; I mean

1

third month of the lunar calendar; Yayoi period (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE); Yayoi culture; (arch.) thick growth (of grass, etc.)

1

it is ... that ...; precisely; although; while; it is precisely because ... that ...; only because ...

1

that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...

1

shape; form; appearance; style; state; situation

1

paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)

3

Mr; Mrs; Miss; politeness marker

9

at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of

19

to tell (to do); to order; to tell (on someone); to report; to often say; to be used to saying

1

yes; indeed; ha!; what?; huh?; sigh

9

to be needed; to be necessary; to be required; to be wanted; to need; to want

1

immediately; at once; soon; before long; easily; readily

1

to go; to move (towards); to move through; to travel across; to go (well, badly, etc.); to proceed; to do (in a particular way)

8

honorific/polite/humble prefix

1

to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience

5

ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah

11

reader model; amateur model who appears in fashion magazines

1

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question

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child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young woman; young (animal); offshoot

2

was it?; I think it was ...; if I've got it right; (I, we) used to ...; I remember ...; it was ...

1

so much; so often; oh, yes!; that's it; that's right; quite

2

inside; within; while (e.g. one is young); during; among; amongst; in (secret, chaos, poverty, etc.)

3

university; college; former imperial university of Japan (established under the ritsuryō system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)

1

mistake; error; blunder

1

be; is

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

5

a little; a bit; just a minute; for a moment; somewhat; rather; (not) easily

5

to approach; to draw near

1

very difficult to ...; nearly impossible to ...

1

right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?

6

just (e.g. "just wait here"); come now; tolerably; passably; well ...; I think ...

3

cute; adorable; dear; precious; innocent; childlike

5

you said; he said; even if; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...

16

than; rather than; instead of; from; out of; except

1

indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis

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