(social) standing; status; identity; birth; one's circumstances; one's means
nature (of a person); sex; gender; sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.); gender; -ty
perquisite; perk; side benefit; emoluments
it's no big deal; it's no problem; it's nothing to worry about; safe (and sound); all right
cooked rice; meal; food; one's living; livelihood
to eat; to live; to make a living; to bite; to sting (as insects do); to tease; to torment
to fling; to throw off (clothes); to kick off (boots)
to change (lower-body clothing: shoes, pants, skirt, etc.); to put on (the wrong shoes)
to push out; to project; to stick out; to hand over (e.g. to the police)
izakaya; Japanese bar that also serves various dishes and snacks
to arrive at; to reach; to sit on; to sit at (e.g. the table)
outbreak; spring forth; generation (e.g. of power or heat); genesis; ontogeny; development of complex multicellular structures from cell(s) in a simple state
preliminary arrangements; spade work
Kōzuke (former province located in present-day Gunma Prefecture)
second day of the month; two days
to declare; to assert; to state definitively; to finish saying; to say it all; to finish one's sentence
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough
reality; actuality; practice (as opposed to theory); truly; really; bhutakoti (limit of reality)
junior high school student; middle school pupil
exhausted; tired; withered; worn out; boiling until shapeless or mushy; tediously
quickly and skillfully; to the point; succinctly; concisely
to be truant; to slack off; to play hooky; to skip school; to cut class; to skip out
that's a different matter; that's a different story
oden; dish of various ingredients, e.g. egg, daikon, potato, chikuwa, konnyaku, etc. stewed in soy-flavored dashi
konnyaku (Amorphophallus konjac); konjac; devil's tongue; konnyaku jelly; konjac jelly; devil's tongue jelly
to paint; to plaster; to lacquer; to varnish; to spread; to smear
to interfere; to butt in; to interrupt someone
late at night; at a late hour
just like that; quite so; I agree; (lit.) that street
unconditionally; as a rule
to become thin; to lose weight; to reduce (one's) weight; to be barren; to be infertile; to be sterile
hole; opening; pit; hollow; burrow; den; deficit
making a round trip; going and returning; round-trip ticket; return ticket; correspondence; exchanging (letters)
dispensable chopsticks; throwaway chopsticks
progress; being under way
sake cup; small deep porcelain bowl for serving food
not worth (getting angry about, etc.)
iron wall; impregnable fortress; impregnable; invulnerable; unassailable
disliked; hated; tendency; smack (of); distinction; discrimination
to weaken; to grow weak; to be downcast; to be dejected; to be troubled; to be at a loss