isolation; segregation; separation; quarantine
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
lodging; inn; house; home; home of a servant's parents (or guarantor, etc.)
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
animation; animated film; animated cartoon; anime
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
to begin; to start; to happen (again); to begin (anew); to date (from); to originate (in)
seeming ...; appearing ...; -ish; like a ...; typical of ...
because; as; since; because of that; therefore; accordingly
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
afterlife; realm of the dead
Tsu (city in Mie); harbour; harbor; ferry
place; spot; field; discipline; occasion; situation; scene (of a play, movie, etc.)
tree; shrub; wood; timber; wooden clappers (signalling the beginning or end of a performance)
mallow (any plant of family Malvaceae); Asarum caulescens (species of wild ginger)
courtyard; quadrangle; middle court
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
meal (e.g. lunch, dinner); diet
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 run (a business); to operate; to carry out; to perform; to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)
huh?; eh?; what?; oh; hey!; look!
(one's) father-in-law; (one's) employer; master; principal supporter of a temple; influential temple parishioner
Mr; Mrs; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
business trip; official trip
from; since; through (e.g. a window, door); via; because; as; from (as in "made from")
or rather (say); or better (say); or perhaps I should say; by the way
what; you-know-what; that thing; whatsit; whachamacallit; penis; (one's) thing
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.)
yo!; hello there!; wow!; oh!; yah! (yell)
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
I; me; you; (arch.) manservant
this world; the present world
television; TV; TV program; TV programme; TV broadcast
to buy; to purchase; to value (highly); to think highly of; to incur (someone's anger, displeasure, etc.); to elicit (e.g. sneers)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...; wow
large; big; great; prominent; -sized; as big as; university
conference room; council room