disturbance; trouble; ups and downs
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
first; foremost; most important; best; greatest; above all
match; game; bout; contest
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
crow (Corvus spp.); raven
crow (Corvus spp.); raven
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 throw down; to bring down; to kill; to defeat; to overthrow; to trip up
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
behind; rear; after; later; remainder; the rest; more (e.g. five more minutes)
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
victory; triumph; conquest; success; win
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
to finish; to stop; to close (a business, etc.); to close down; to put away; to put back
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
part (esp. of the body); region; site; cut (of meat)
violent; furious; extreme; intense; fervent; vehement
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
still; as yet; (not) yet; more; (more) still; at least
(preliminary) skirmish; prelude; preliminary encounter; warm-up match (e.g. before a final)
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
have no choice; there is nothing but; no more than
to remove; to take off; to drop (e.g. from a team); to remove (from a position); to leave (e.g. one's seat); to go away from
force; strength; capability; ability; efficacy; effect; effort
to make a display of; to show off; to flaunt
as was expected; just as one thought; sure enough; really; actually; ever
victory or defeat; issue (of battle); outcome
(one's) whereabouts; destination; where one is headed; outcome; course (of events); future
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
feces (esp. animal); excrement; dung
is that so? (generally rhetorical)