strange; odd; unexpected; change; incident; disturbance
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
comfort; ease; easy; simple; (economically) comfortable; raku pottery
I'm sorry; my apologies; may I come in?; permission; leave; dismissal
I wonder; should I?; is it?; I wish that; I hope that
honest; frank; candid; honestly; frankly
with a feeling of relief; with a sigh of relief; deeply (sigh)
indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!
indicates concession or compromise; indicates permission
to remember; to recollect; to recognize; to recognise
come; come now; well; who knows; well now; let's see
always; all the time; never; usual; regular
yes; that is correct; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?
head (of a household); proprietor (of a store); one's husband; (one's) employer; (one's) master; host
to make; to produce; to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol); to raise; to grow; to till
third month of the lunar calendar; (arch.) thick growth (of grass, etc.); Yayoi period (ca. 300 BCE-300 CE); Yayoi culture
your husband; her husband
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
indicates reason or excuse; indicates dissatisfaction; indicates desire to be pampered or indulged
after a long time; for the first time in a while
although; despite; whereas; while; if only; I wish
interrogative sentence-ending particle expressing doubt
perhaps; possibly; maybe; if; in case; in the event that
cognitive impairment; senility; dementia
now that you mention it; come to think of it; that reminds me; on that subject; speaking of which
telephone call; telephone (device)
wife; your wife; his wife; married lady; madam
to notice; to become aware; to be scrupulous; to be attentive; to recover consciousness; to come to oneself
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
then; and then; and; if so; because then; if that's the case
that sort of; that kind of; like that; such; so
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
surplus; margin; leeway; composure; placidity; complacency
to be lost (e.g. luggage); to be missing; to be used up; to be run out; to disappear (e.g. pain); to be lost (e.g. a dream, confidence)
Public Nursing Care Insurance Law (1997)
revision; amendment; alteration
living; life (one's daily existence); livelihood
minute (unit of time); fun (one tenth of a monme, 5.787 grains)
shortening; contraction; reduction; curtailment; abbreviation
more or less; though not quite satisfactorily; tentatively; for the time being; just in case; once
thanks to ...; owing to ...; because of ...