search (esp. in criminal investigations); investigation; inquiry; enquiry
personal; individual; private
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
so; therefore; accordingly; consequently; on those grounds; that is why
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
event; affair; incident; case; plot; trouble
right?; isn't it?; hey; say; you know; you see; will you?
time; hour; occasion; case; chance; opportunity
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
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 shoot (at); to attack; to defeat; to destroy
star (usu. not including the Sun); planet (usu. not including Earth); star (glyph, symbol, shape); star (actor, player, etc.); small dot; spot; star point (in go)
to chase; to run after; to pursue
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
superintendent supervisor; assistant commissioner (UK, Aus. etc.)
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
in front (of); before (e.g. a building); before; earlier; (the) front; frontal part; forward
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
(police) detective; criminal matter
to sniff around; to snoop around; to nose about
to start; to begin; to start up (a business, society, etc.); to open (e.g. a store); to start ...; to begin to ...
man; male; fellow; guy; male lover; boyfriend
information; news; intelligence; information; data contained in characters, signals, code, etc.
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
name; given name; first name
at that time; in those days
assistant; associate; duplicate; copy; adverb
inspector general; commissioner
be; is; did; (have) done; please; do
above; up; top; summit; surface; before; previous
all; entire; whole; altogether
to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember
you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
concealment; suppression; hiding
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
(sound of a) gunshot; (gun) report
subsection head; assistant manager; chief clerk