hello; good day; good afternoon
(arch.) office; (arch.) official; chief; head; (Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa) person (usually a woman) whose duty it is to officiate at religions ceremonies
oh!; good heavens!; ugh!; oh no!; ah!; the penny drops!
to come; to go; to be (somewhere); to be (doing)
yes; yeah; hum; hmmm; oof
to send (a thing); to dispatch; to take or escort (a person somewhere); to see off (a person); to bid farewell (to the departed); to bury; to spend (time)
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
although; despite; whereas; while; if only; I wish
in that way; thus; so; so?
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
noisy; loud; annoying; troublesome; fussy; finicky
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
as usual; as always; as before; as ever; still
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
direction; way; side (of an argument, etc.); one's part; type; category; field (of study, etc.)
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
this and that; this or that; one thing or another; this way and that
to mind; to care about; to be an issue; to matter; to keep company; to care for; to interfere with
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
father; dad; papa; pa; pop; daddy
job transfer away from one's home; taking up a new post leaving one's family behind
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
remainder; remnant; not very; not much; too much; excessively
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
is that so? (generally rhetorical)
a little; a bit; just a minute; for a moment; somewhat; rather; (not) easily
fast; quick; early (in the day, etc.); premature; (too) soon; not yet
noon; midday; daytime; lunch
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
indicates a question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm; huh; very
somewhere; anywhere; in some respects
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
no; nay; well; er; you're welcome; not at all
with trouble; at great pains; rare; valuable; kind; generous
so; therefore; accordingly; like I said; I told you already