to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in
truth; reality; proper; right; genuine; authentic
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
suffix for familiar person
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
bread; (sweet) pastry; staff of life; one's bread
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
how many times; how many degrees (temperature, angle, etc.)
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
explosion; detonation; eruption; eruption (of discontent, etc.); outburst; outpouring
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 repeat; to do something over again
via; through; by doing; by means of; using
cloth; fabric; dough; batter; inherent quality; one's true character; unglazed pottery
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
drumming (noise); beating; rapidly; quickly; continuously; one after the other
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 come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
quite; entirely; completely; as if; as though; just like
cotton candy; fairy floss; candy floss
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
yes; yeah; huh?; what?; not; 's
once; one time; temporarily; for a moment; one degree; one tone
now; soon; already; yet; further; more
indicates supposition; if ... then; when; (typically after someone's name) indicates exasperation
to have a hole; to be pierced (with a hole)
to dance (orig. a whirling dance); to flutter about; to revolve
to be able (in a position) to do; to be up to the task; to be ready; to be completed; to be made; to be built; to be good at
balloon (esp. small, toy variety); airship; blimp
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
same; identical; equal; anyway; anyhow; in either case
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
existing (at the present moment); alright; acceptable; to be (usu. of inanimate objects); to have
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
such; that sort of; that kind of; no way!; never!
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)