murder; homicide; manslaughter
childbirth; (giving) birth; delivery; production (of goods)
cicada; locust; small-sized pulley
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
voice; singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); voice; opinion (as expressed in words); sound; sense (of something's arrival)
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to be heard; to be audible; to be said to be; to be reputed
company; corporation; workplace
to enter; to go into; to break into; to join; to enroll; to contain; to hold
multi-floor building; multi-storey building; bill
back (esp. of a building, etc.); rear; behind
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
every year; yearly; annually
a lot; lots; enough; sufficient; enough; too many
to live (of animals); to inhabit; to nest
to put on (lower-body clothing, e.g. pants, skirt, footwear); to wear; to affix (a sword to one's hip); (arch.) to affix (a bowstring to a bow)
to afflict; to torment; to harass; to molest
toilet; restroom; bathroom; lavatory
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
exactly; precisely; just; as if; as though; quite
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
tree; shrub; bush; wood; timber
right in front; just opposite; under the nose
that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ...; given that ...
viewing through a window; passing through a window; going through a window; doing through a window
to be broken; to break; to fall through; to come to nothing
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
noisy; loud; much talked of; much-discussed; strict; severe
to resound; to be heard far away; to reverberate; to shake; to come (home); to remain (with someone)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
fresh, young ears of rice
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
birth; giving birth; creating; bringing into the world
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
intention; plan; belief; assumption; estimate; estimation
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
(not) at all; (not) in the slightest; wholly; entirely; extremely; very
to notice; to recognize; to recognise; to become aware of; to perceive; to realize
middle of summer; height of summer; midsummer