day; days; sun; sunshine; (the) day; daytime; date
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
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
the future (usually distant); future tense; the world to come
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to let fly; to make fly; to skip over; to leave out; to run fast; to drive fast; to spray
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
present age; present day; today; modern era; modern times
to turn back (e.g. half-way); to return; to go back; to recover (e.g. something lost); to be returned; to rebound
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
nonexistent; not being (there); unowned; not had; unique; not; impossible
as it is; as one likes; because; condition; state
but (still); and yet; nevertheless; even so; notwithstanding
frantic; frenetic; inevitable death; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)
to go against; to fight against; to oppose; to resist; to deny
to continue; to keep up; to keep on
by means of; due to; because of; according to
all-out attack; general offensive
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 put something out of the way; to move (something, someone) aside; to set aside; to keep apart; to remove (someone) from the group; to shun
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.)
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
figure; form; appearance; dress; state; condition
mission; delegation; transmission
accomplishment; execution
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
as you were; return to your original position!; er, rather
to face; to go towards; to head towards
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
to disappear (of people or animals); to go (away); to leave; to no longer exist
opposition; rivalry; competition; antagonism
energy; energy; strength; energy source; energy resource; food energy
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
almost; roughly; approximately
to be used up; to be run out; to be exhausted; to be consumed; to come to an end