when it comes to ...; where ... is concerned; if it's the case that ...; if it turns out that ...; if it's true that ...
ace (playing card); ace (of a team); leading player; ace; hotshot; ace (serve)
once; one time; temporarily; for a moment; one degree; one tone
please (give me); please (do for me)
how; in what way; how about
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
be supposed or expected to (do); be sure to (do); ought to (do)
before one's own eyes; from under one's very nose; without doing anything; without resistance; helplessly; negligently
to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to lay across; to build across; to hand over; to hand in
cannot (due to external circumstances); cannot afford to; must not; impossible to; no way one can (do)
by no means; never!; something unexpected; emergency; (arch.) currently; (arch.) for the time being
to abandon; to fail; to desert; to forsake
intention; plan; belief; assumption; estimate; estimation
no good; not serving its purpose; hopeless; wasted; cannot; must not
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
(hard) candy; toffee; rice-sugar; sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.; amber; yellowish-brown
piece; fragment; one (object)
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
between-meal snack; mid-afternoon (around 3 o'clock) snack; afternoon refreshment; afternoon tea
I'm off; see you later; to go (and then come back)
this way; this direction; here; this (one); I; me
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
still; as yet; (not) yet; more; (more) still; at least
to enter; to go into; to break into; to join; to enroll; to contain; to hold
force; strength; capability; ability; efficacy; effect; effort
to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to
never mind that; don't worry about that; listen up
futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
to harden; to freeze; to put together; to collect; to make secure; to stabilize; to fortify
next; hypo- (i.e. containing an element with low valence); order; sequence
to give up; to abandon (hope, plans); to resign oneself (to)
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
preparation; arrangements; provision; getting ready; laying out (e.g. a meal)
the expectation is that ...; the reason is that ...; the fact is that ...; the explanation is that ...; it is that ...
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
honorific/polite/humble prefix
even so; all the same; nevertheless; yes, but ...
things like; something like; someone like; such a thing as; (the fact) that; to think that
to be aware of; to know; to notice; to feel; to understand; to comprehend; to remember