sex; sexual intercourse; (one's) sex; gender
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 do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
behind; rear; after; later; remainder; the rest; more (e.g. five more minutes)
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
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
always; all the time; never; usual; regular
somewhere; anywhere; in some respects
body; torso; trunk; build; physique; health
slowly; unhurriedly; easily (e.g. in time); well; well (e.g. sleep); comfortably
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
to raise; to raise up; to wake; to wake up; to cause; to bring about; to start
(a) little; (a) few; slight; only; just; merely
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
to open; to undo; to bloom; to unfold; to open (for business, e.g. in the morning); to be wide (gap, etc.); to widen
crevice; crack; spare moment; interval; chink (in one's armor, armour); unpreparedness
from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part)
spring; springtime; New Year; prime (of life); height (of one's prosperity); adolescence
light; illumination; ray; happiness; hope; influence
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to feel anxious; to feel nervous; fluttering down; trickling down (e.g. tears); hanging untidily (of hair); straggling
to spill over and fall; to scatter (petals, leaves, etc.)
dimly; faintly; absentmindedly; vacantly; idly; aimlessly
to stare at; to gaze at; to look hard at; to watch intently; to fix one's eyes on
(one's) gaze; direction in which one is looking; point of view; standpoint; line covering someone's eyes (in an edited photograph)
to shift; to slide (e.g. something away from something else); to move (e.g. something out of the way); to put off; to delay; to postpone
under (influence, control, conditions, etc. of); during (war, occupation, etc.)
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to; for; in order to; for; as for; regarding
last night; yesterday evening
to fling; to throw off (clothes); to kick off (boots)
Western-style clothes (cf. traditional Japanese clothes)
variety; kind; type; counter for kinds, species, etc.
disorder; confusion; clutter; mess; muddle; disarray
to be scattered about; to disperse; to be littered (with)
thing; object; one's things; possessions; things; something; quality
owner; proprietor; possessor (e.g. of talent, beauty, etc.)
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
inside; interior; among; within; middle; center; during
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
still; as yet; (not) yet; more; (more) still; at least
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing