pitiful; pathetic; painful to look at
only; merely; approximately; about; just (finished, etc.); as if to; (as though) about to
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
stage; step; level; rank; order; stairs
society; public; community; social studies
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
class; level; stratum; layer; hierarchy
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
child; kid; (one's) child; offspring; young (animal); young woman; offshoot
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
fixed; settled; constant; definite; uniform; regularized
qualifications; requirements; capabilities
to take; to pick up; to pass; to hand; to get; to obtain; to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.)
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
necessary; needed; essential; necessity; need; requirement
memory; ability to remember
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
patience; perseverance; persistence; tenacity; energy
if only (you) have; as long as (you) have; whenever (you) have
expert; learned person; doctor; PhD; instructor at the imperial court (ritsuryo period); pitch and length marks (to accompany a Buddhist liturgical chant, etc.)
also; too; not ... either; (it's not possible) no matter what; although one might wish otherwise
government official; clerk
military personnel; soldier
to get; to earn; to understand; to comprehend; to receive something undesirable (e.g. a punishment); to get (ill)
period; epoch; the times; those days; oldness; ancientness
light; well-lit; bright (of a colour); brightly-coloured; cheerful; bright; encouraging (for the future of a project, etc.)
such; this sort of; like this
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
from now; from the present moment; from this time forward; henceforth
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
indeed; really; absolutely; truly; actually; very
funny; comical; humorous; ridiculous; silly; absurd
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
(husked grains of) rice; staple (product, etc.); necessity
chief; main; principal; major
company; lot; bunch; troupe; company (of musicians)
advanced (developed) country; advanced nations
same; identical; equal; anyway; anyhow; in either case
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
same; similar; (just) like; equal
public finance; financial affairs; financial situation