suffix for familiar person
sakaki (species of evergreen sacred to Shinto, Cleyera japonica); evergreen (esp. one planted or used at a shrine)
professor; teaching; instruction
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
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
skip it; drop it; I've had enough (e.g. when offered something); that's enough
as a matter of fact; by the way; to tell you the truth; to be honest; frankly
now; the present time; just now; another; more
association; socializing; socialising; fellowship
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 do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
Eh?; What?; Come on!; Damn!
lie; fib; mistake; error; unwise move; bad decision
serious; not joking; straight
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
yes; that is correct; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?
you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
skin; body (in the context of intimate bodily contact); surface; grain (e.g. of wood); disposition; temperament
contact; connectedness; rapport; mutual touching
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that...
such; like that; that sort of; very
ah!; oh!; yes; indeed; aah; gah
to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
embarrassing; embarrassed; ashamed; disgraceful; shameful
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
trouble; bother; annoyance; to be troubled (by); to be bothered (by); to be inconvenienced (by)
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ...; given that ...
premises; grounds; campus; compound; precincts
to the last; persistency; thoroughness
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
student (esp. a university student)
as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that...; trying to...
existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
is that so? (generally rhetorical)