indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
confession (to a crime, wrongdoing, etc.); admission; professing one's feelings (to someone one wants to go out with); declaration of love; profession (of faith); confession (of sins)
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 refuse; to reject; to inform; to give notice; to ask leave; to excuse oneself (from)
declining; refusal; rejection; announcement; notice
shop; store; someone who sells (something) or works as (something); someone with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
(talent) scout; recruiter; scouting; headhunting; Boy Scouts; Girl Scouts
two persons; two people; pair; couple
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to
secret; secrecy; mystery; secret (e.g. to success); esoteric teachings
room; chamber; apartment; flat; stable
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
come (on); come now; all right; right; well; hmm
to borrow; to rent; to hire; to make use of (another's help, wisdom, etc.); to obtain; to use (for another purpose)
as (one pleases, one is told, etc.); wherever (e.g. one's feet take one); according to
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.)
ball; sphere; bead (of sweat, dew, etc.); drop; ball (in sports); pitch (e.g. in baseball); pile (of noodles, etc.)
in this way; like this; this (much); so; uh; er
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
period of time (usu. a period of approx. two hours corresponding to one of the signs of the Chinese zodiac); carving; engraving; victory; strictness; cruelty
this time; now; next time; another time; recently; lately
clothes (esp. Western clothes); clothing; dress; counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, puffs of a cigarette, etc.
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that ...
with a smooch (kissing); with a light smacking sound
to bring (something); to take along; to fetch; to get
Mr; Mrs; Miss; politeness marker
-like; sort of; similar to; resembling
enjoyable; fun; pleasant; happy; delightful
yes; yeah; huh?; what?; 's; of
tightly (hold, squeeze, etc.); firmly; forcefully (e.g. push); hard
to anyone; to everyone; by anyone; by everyone; in everyone; in anyone
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
promise; agreement; appointment; engagement; convention; rule
gap; opening; spare moment; interval; unguarded moment; carelessness