yikes!; eek!; ook; eek; customer
safe; secure; certainly; surely; no thanks; I'm good
woman; female; feminine gender
not a chance; not likely; no way; oh no; yuck; eew
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.
to take; to pick up; to pass; to hand; to get; to obtain; to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.)
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
Mr; Mrs; Miss; politeness marker
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to
to go; to move (towards); to move through; to travel across; to go (well, badly, etc.); to proceed; to do (in a particular way)
to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
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
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...
article; news story; report; account
to write; to compose; to pen; to draw; to paint
to be saved; to be rescued; to escape harm; to be spared damage; to be helped; to be saved trouble
telephone call; phone call; telephone (device); phone
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
contacting; (making) contact; connection (with a train, bus, etc.); joining (a railway line, etc.); connection (between matters, incidents, etc.); relation
how; in what way; why; for what reason; cannot possibly; no way
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
information; news; information (data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.); informatics (as a subject)
to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to preach
to give; to confer; to bestow; to kindly do for one; to oblige; to favour
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
such; this sort of; like this
which; where; all; both; anyway; anyhow
to talk; to chat; to chatter
surface; face (i.e. the visible side of an object); front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin; outside; exterior; appearance
in any case; regardless; either way; since it makes no difference anyway (you might as well ...); since it won't change the outcome; if you are doing it regardless
if; in case; as for; on the topic of; if that's the case; if so
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)