clothing; costume; outfit; garment; dress
to come to nothing; to be in vain; to lead nowhere
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
to be (in contrast to something that is not the case)
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
yes; indeed; ha!; what?; huh?; sigh
conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation
somehow; how; in what way; why; what kind of
active duty; active service; student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try
class (of students); group (of people); party; lot; bunch; crime family; organized-crime syndicate
graduation; completion (of a course); moving on (from); outgrowing (something); leaving (a group, company, etc.)
receiving; welcoming; going to meet; final call; call of fate; approach of death
removal (e.g. of a building); dismantling (e.g. a tent); striking (e.g. a stage set); withdrawal (of troops); evacuation; retreating
in order to (e.g. meet goal); so that; take care (so as); hoping or wishing for something
both (hands, parents, sides, etc.); counter for carriages (e.g. in a train); counter for vehicles; ryō; tael; ryō; pre-Meiji unit of currency, orig. the value of one ryō of gold
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
meeting up; gathering; assembly; set
luggage; baggage; burden; payload (of a packet, cell, etc.)
understood; I see; OK; present; here
to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate
examination; exam; test; trial; experiment; test
nisei; second-generation Japanese (or Korean, etc.); the second (e.g. Edward II); son
safety; security; safely; without incident; good health; inaction
to send to; to deliver; to escort (a person) home
concentration; focusing; convergence; within a collection of works
graduation examination; graduation test
to end; to come to an end; to close; to finish
that way; that direction; there; that (one); you; your family
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
to give; to let (one) have; to give; to do for one; to take the trouble to do; to do to someone's disadvantage
to request; to beg; to call; to order; to entrust to; to rely on
yacht (esp. a sailing boat with one mast); sailing boat; sailboat
staff; member (club, society, etc.)
to call for somebody; to come for someone; to pick someone up
somewhere; anywhere; in some respects
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
voice; singing (of a bird); chirping (of an insect); voice; opinion (as expressed in words); sound; sense (of something's arrival)
anyhow; at any rate; anyway; somehow or other; generally speaking; in any case
to sharpen; to hone; to wash (rice); to scour; to polish
it's been a long time; long time no see
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
nicely; properly; frequently; often; I'm glad that you ...; thank you for ...
to suit; to match; to become; to be like