appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style
tightly (holding on); firmly; strongly (built); solidly; properly; well
clothes (esp. Western clothes); clothing; dress; counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, puffs of a cigarette, etc.
to seize; to catch; to obtain; to acquire; to understand; to grasp
reverse; opposite; converse (of a hypothesis, etc.); inverse (function)
hand; arm; forepaw; foreleg; handle; hand; worker
thinnish; somewhat thin; weakish; on the weak side; rather light; rather pale
to burn; to roast; to grill; to bake
to hold between (e.g. one's fingers, chopsticks); to grip (from both sides); to put between; to sandwich between; to catch (e.g. a finger in a door); to trap; to insert (e.g. a break into proceedings)
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
confectionery; sweets; candy; cake
honorific/polite/humble prefix
grandfather; old man; kyogen mask used for the role of an old man
Mr; Mrs; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
how; in what way; how about; questionable
reserve; constraint; declining; refraining; forethought; foresight
to put; to place; to leave (behind); to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.); to set up; to appoint (someone to a certain position); to hire
all; entire; whole; altogether
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
language; dialect; word; phrase; speech; (manner of) speaking
to nod; to bow one's head in assent; to agree
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
skillful; skilful; adroit; clever; shrewd; ingenious
to bite into; to sink one's teeth into
to line up; to stand in a line; to rival; to match; to equal
street stall; stand; booth
to buy; to purchase; to value (highly); to think highly of; to incur (someone's anger, displeasure, etc.); to elicit (e.g. sneers)
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
rare; uncommon; new; novel; fine; nice
to invite; to ask (someone to do); to tempt; to lure; to induce (tears, laughter, sleepiness, etc.); to arouse (e.g. sympathy)
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
by no means; never!; certainly (not); surely (not); something unexpected; emergency
this sort of; this kind of; like this; such
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)
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
in this way; like this; this (much); so; uh; er
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.)
reason; grounds; pretext; excuse; motive
king; queen; monarch; the Crown (as a focus of authority in the UK, etc.); the throne
the person in question; prominent figure; distinguished person; that person
than; rather than; instead of; from; out of; except
in person; personally; directly