Hokuriku region of Honshu (incl. Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui prefectures)
Nagano (city, prefecture)
until (a time); till; to (a place or person); as far as; to (an extent); up to
route (bus, train, air, etc.); line; line (taken by a group, organization, etc.); policy; course
inconsequential; indifferent; not worth worrying about; whatever; whichever; I don't care
first (of all); firstly; probably; most likely; more or less (satisfactory); on the whole
(one's) older sister; (one's) elder sister; girl
bento; Japanese box lunch
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
shop; store; somebody who sells (something) or works as (something); somebody with a (certain) personality trait; house; roof
behind; rear; after; later; remainder; the rest; more (e.g. five more minutes)
all; entire; whole; altogether
with the exception of; excepting; excluding
sad; miserable; unhappy; sad; lamentable; deplorable
to pass through; to pass by; to pass (of time); to elapse; to have expired; to have ended; to exceed
female friend; woman friend
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
meddling; interfering; choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one
single; simple; singles (tennis, badminton, etc.); win bet (bet which predicts the winner of a race)
to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
invitation; solicitation; canvassing; canvasing; inducement; persuasion
pot; jar; dice cup; depression; basin (e.g. of a waterfall); aim; what one wants
to buy; to purchase; to value; to have a high opinion; to stir; to provoke
far from; anything but; not at all; let alone; to say nothing of; not to mention
always; all the time; never; usual; regular
to give (someone) a treat; to be extravagant; to live luxuriously; to be proud; to be haughty
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
language; dialect; word; phrase; speech; (manner of) speaking
amount necessary to fill a container (e.g. cupful, spoonful, etc.); drink (usu. alcoholic); full; one squid, octopus, crab, etc.; one boat; fully; to capacity
lover; sweetheart; boyfriend; girlfriend
with these words; while saying
towards; against; regarding; in contrast with
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
seeing two people (i.e. romantically) at the same time; two-timing; bifurcation; fork; fence-sitting; playing it both ways
crotch; crutch; groin; fork (in a tree, road, river, etc.); tines (of a fork)
dirty joke; blue joke; indecent topic; bawdy subject; sex talk