one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
honorific/polite/humble prefix
you; buddy; monarch; ruler; he; she
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
before long; soon; almost; nearly; finally; in the end
Noto (former province located in the north of present-day Ishikawa Prefecture); Noto (peninsula)
babysitting; babysitter; protecting; keeping; keeper
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
living room (Western style); sitting room
to stick through; to force through; to spread throughout; to thoroughly diffuse; to make a path between two points; to proceed in a logical manner; to let pass
because ...; for ...; the reason being ...; as for ...; when it comes to ...; regarding ...
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
guidance; leading (the way); information; notice; announcement (of one's arrival); invitation
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
bizarre; strange; eccentric; odd; queer
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to feel; to sense; to experience
not only ... but (also); as well as ...
anyone; anybody; everyone; everybody; whoever
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
sense; idea; desire; concern; attention; care
to hit; to strike; to strike (noon, etc.); to sound (cymbals, etc.); to beat (rhythmically, e.g. pulse, waves, etc.); to move; to impress
conclusion from reasoning, judgement or calculation based on something read or heard; reason; cause; meaning; circumstances; situation
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
tatami mat; Japanese straw floor coverings
if; in case; as for; on the topic of; if that's the case; if so
tatami mat (esp. as a measure of room size, either 1.82 sqm or 1.54 sqm)
extent; degree; limit; bounds; (span of) time; (a) distance; the state of
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 hold (in one's hand); to take; to possess; to have; to maintain; to keep; to last
to spread out; to lay out; to take a position; to impose widely (e.g. over a city)
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
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.)
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
to cover a surface; to spread all over; to blanket; to lay
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
room; wife (of someone of high rank); scabbard; Chinese "Encampment" constellation (one of the 28 mansions)
centre; center; middle; capital; seat of government
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question