ability; gift; talent; sai; traditional unit of volume, approx. 1.8 ml
possession; ownership; Tibet; Tibetan people
not less than; ... and over; beyond (e.g. one's expectations); above; above-mentioned; aforementioned
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
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
together with; same; both; all; including ...
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 do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to face; to go towards; to head towards
face; honour; meld; lineup (of players participating in a mahjong game); attendees (e.g. at a meeting); members
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
remnant; residue; remaining; left-over
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
absence; being away from home; house-sitting; house-sitter; being left unattended to (of one's studies, etc.); neglecting
to request; to beg; to call; to order; to entrust to; to rely on
yes; indeed; ha!; what?; huh?; sigh
to wait; to await; to look forward to; to depend on; to need
to be (animate); to be; to be ..ing; to (have the audacity to) do
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
lonely; lonesome; solitary; desolate
will; probably; may; I think; surely; I hope
particularly; especially; in particular; expressly
indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!
please; kindly; by all means; certainly; here you are; to give
slowly; unhurriedly; without haste; leisurely; at one's leisure
cute; adorable; dear; precious; innocent; childlike
Mr.; Mrs.; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation
honorific/polite/humble prefix
to be careful; to pay attention; to take care
tightly (holding on); firmly; strongly (built); solidly; properly; well
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
in addition; furthermore; above (which); on top of (which)
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
(one's) gaze; direction in which one is looking; point of view; standpoint; line covering someone's eyes (in an edited photograph)
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
monkey (esp. the Japanese macaque, Macaca fuscata); ape; sly person; idiot; hick; sliding wooden bolt (for holding a door or window shut); clasp used to control the height of a pot-hook