supplementary biography; anecdote; side story; spin-off
after that; afterwards; thereafter
redundancy; superfluity; useless addition
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
ordinary; common; commonplace; mediocre; unremarkable; undistinguished
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
to be conspicuous; to stand out
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
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.
creed; belief; conviction; article of faith
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 ...
to live; to exist; to make a living; to subsist; to be in effect; to be in use
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
lack of individuality or personality
projection; protrusion; rupture (e.g. of gas); jetting out; prominence; standing out
rather; sooner; preferably; on the contrary; if anything
such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!
fellow; guy; thing; object; he; she
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have ...-ed; to be ...-ed
remind me; I forget; was it?; was that what happened?
and the like; such as; or something; something like; I hear that ...; people say that ...
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
feeling; sense; impression
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
to forget completely; to leave behind
approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
just right (time, size, length, etc.)
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
good thing; nice thing; good excuse; good grounds; interjection used to impress an idea or to urge a response
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
unique; peculiar; singular
et cetera; etc.; or something; the likes of; for example; for instance
what is called; what you call; what they call; so-called
behaving in a way characteristic of teenagers going through puberty, esp. by being overly self-conscious; (lit.) 2nd year of junior high sickness
antipodes; other (opposite) extreme; opposite; antithesis
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about
indicates a question; indicates an embedded question; indicates an indirect question; or; whether or not; some- (e.g. something, someone); hmm
to wither (of a plant); to be blasted; to die; to mature (of one's personality, abilities, etc.)
to cut; to cut through; to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to punch (a ticket)
taste; liking; preference
basics; fundamentals; basis; basically; fundamentally
posture; pose; position; attitude; approach; stance