indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
(overnight) stay; lodging
meeting; assembly; party; society; association; club
ball (for sport, games, etc.); kemari; type of football played by courtiers in ancient Japan
work (e.g. of art); piece; harvest; crop; technique
picture; drawing; painting; image (TV, film, etc.); picture; footage
happy; glad; pleased; joyful; delightful; gratifying
calendar; calender (machine for flattening things)
north; the North; northern territories; North Korea; (arch.) north wind
end; verge; extremity; miss; failure; blank (e.g. lottery ticket)
at; in; to; toward; to; for; because of
satisfactory; decent; good; proper; worthy
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about
flour; meal; powder; heroin
falling heavily (of rain, snow, etc.)
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
to wave; to shake; to sprinkle; to throw (dice); to cast (actor); to allocate (work); to turn down (someone)
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
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 attach; to stick together; to place together; to put side by side; to make (someone) get married; to get (someone) hitched
outside; exterior; the open (air); other place; somewhere else
to look at; to gaze at; to look out over; to get a view of; to look on (from the sidelines); to stand by and watch
all; entire; whole; altogether
sound; noise; (musical) note; fame
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
to erase; to rub out; to turn off (a light, TV, heater, etc.); to switch off; to extinguish (a fire, candle, etc.); to put out; to remove (a smell, pain, etc.)
pure white; blank (e.g. mind, paper)
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.)
to mutter; to murmur; to grumble; to tweet; to post on Twitter
from; since; through (e.g. a window, door); via; because; as; from (as in "made from")
December; twelfth month of the lunar calendar
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
finally; at last; barely; narrowly; gradually; little by little
to be in time (for); to serve (suit, meet) the purpose; to be good enough; to be enough