prosperity; flourishing; thriving
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
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
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
family or person with samurai ancestors
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
thought; imagination; mind; desire; wish; love
that; the; part (as in "part two"); um ...; er ...
everything; all; the whole; entirely; completely; wholly
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.
government; administration
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to raise; to bring to (someone's attention); to appeal to (reason, emotions, etc.); to work on (one's emotions); to complain; to sue (a person)
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
direction; way; person; lady; method of; manner of; care of ...
to enquire of someone about something (inquire); to question; to interrogate; to grill (someone about a matter); to question in detail
heave-ho; oops; yes; yeah
always; without exception; necessarily; certainly; without fail; positively
Satsuma (former province located in the west of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture); sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
to return; to come home; to leave; to get home; to get to home plate
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
distress; wretched condition
good; advantage; sake; purpose; consequence; result
pupil; student; schoolchild
together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
straight; directly; voyage; journey; straight road
to aim at (for, to do, to become); to try for; to have an eye on; to go toward; to head for
something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to say; to utter; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
yes; yeah; huh?; what?; not; 's
yes; that is correct; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?
wicket gate; wooden door; entrance to an entertainment venue (i.e. sumo arena, etc.)
circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
company; lot; bunch; troupe; company (of musicians)
spontaneous discharge; accidental gun discharge
only; just; merely; as much as; to the extent of; enough to