woman; female; feminine gender
professor; teaching; instruction
man; male; masculine gender
cheers; bottoms-up; toast; drink (in celebration or in honor of something); drinking one's glass dry
guest; visitor; customer; client; shopper
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
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.
hogging; having all to oneself; monopolising; monopolizing
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
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
indicates emotion or admiration; indicates emphasis; I; me; wah!; boo!
honorific/polite/humble prefix
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
suffix for familiar person
a short while ago; a moment ago; just now; some time ago
magic (illusion); conjuring; magic trick; conjuring trick; sleight of hand
it is assuredly that ...; can say with confidence that ...; did not ...
answer; reply; response; answer; solution; result
self-evident; obvious; axiomatic; self-explanatory; trivial
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
box; case; car (of a train, etc.); shamisen case; shamisen; public building; community building
to go through; to pass through; to get through; to cut across
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
you; buddy; monarch; ruler; he; she
hand; arm; forepaw; foreleg; handle; hand; worker
the reverse; other side; lining
beforehand; in advance; previously
set; set meal; combo-meal; hairdo
distinction; difference; separate; different; exception; exclusion
fall; drop; descent; coming down
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question