oh!; good heavens!; ugh!; oh no!; ah!; the penny drops!
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
intruder; invader; trespasser; raider
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
easily; readily; quickly; lightly (seasoned food, applied make-up, etc.); plainly; simply
unthinkable; unexpected; absolutely not!; far from it!; (it was) no bother at all; not at all
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
indicates reason or excuse; indicates dissatisfaction; indicates desire to be pampered or indulged
centre; center; middle; capital; seat of government
to surround; to crowd around
in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; take care (so as); hoping or wishing for something
to be seen; to be in sight; to look; to seem; to come
now; the present time; just now; another; more
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
place; location; room; space; basho; wrestling tournament
wall; partition; barrier; obstacle; Chinese "Wall" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)
wonderful; marvelous; strange; strangely enough; oddly enough; for some reason
storehouse; warehouse; godown
to be unable to; to find difficult (unpleasant, awkward, painful) to do; to serve two or more functions or roles simultaneously; to contain (or combine) two or more features; to work in two or more jobs simultaneously (positions, etc.); to do alongside
approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
(a) step; one step; level; stage; small degree; small amount
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else
to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to
right in the center (centre)
to appear; to come in sight; to become visible; to be expressed (e.g. emotions); to become apparent (e.g. trends, effects)
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
itself; one's own body; oneself; originally; naturally
big; large; loud; extensive; spacious; important
and yet; despite this; but even so; but even then; however; nevertheless
how; in what way; by what means
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such
denotes uncertainty; such things as A and B; A and B and so on; A and B and the like