schoolgirl; female student
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
yikes!; eek!; ook; eek; customer
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
particularly; especially; in particular; expressly
(not) anything; (nothing) at all; and everything else; and all; (not) at all; (not) in the least
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
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
majority; more than half; most (of); mostly; largely; mainly
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to come to like; to become fond of; to fall in love
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to surround; to encircle; to besiege; to lay siege to; to play (go, shogi, etc.)
what is called; as it is called; the so-called; so to speak
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
continuously in some state (for a long time, distance); throughout; much (better, etc.); by far; far away; long ago
(fictional) character; character; personality; persona
as it is; as one likes; because; condition; state
childhood friend; friend from infancy; old playmate
law (esp. ancient East Asian criminal code); regulation; vinaya (rules for the monastic community); Ritsu (school of Buddhism); lüshi (style of Chinese poem); (musical) pitch; six odd-numbered notes of the ancient chromatic scale
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
don't; do; hey; listen; now, ...; well, ...
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.
yes; indeed; ha!; what?; huh?; sigh
to become less crowded; to thin out; to get empty; to be hungry
morning; breakfast; (arch.) next morning
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
hey; you; hey; hey; hold on; yo
yakiniku; Japanese dish of grilled meat similar to Korean barbecue; roasted meat; grill
what!; oh; what the heck; what the; damn
now; the present time; just now; another; more
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various
yen (Japanese monetary unit); circle
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
how; in what way; how about