original text; source book; draft
one; 1; best; first; foremost; beginning; start
going; travelling; act; action; bank; counter for banks; counter for groups or parties of people
party; group; troop; one act; one action; one deed
letter (of alphabet); character; writing
multicolumn layout; column setting
step; stair; grade; rank; counter for breaks in written language (or speech, etc.); dan
character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
tuck (e.g. in a dress); rise (e.g. in price)
replacement; substitute; displacement; transposition; reset
fashion; way; school (of thought); class; rank; current (electrical, water, etc.)
Hyogo prefecture (Kinki area) (Hyougo)
residing; living; dwelling
year; counter for years (e.g. of an era), grades (e.g. school); period of an apprentice's contract (usu. ten years)
prefix for forming ordinal numbers
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
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.
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
depression; melancholy; dejection; gloom; despondency
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
debut; doing something for the first time; starting anew; starting afresh
to accomplish; to achieve; to carry out; to do ... completely; to do ... entirely
again; once more; also; too; on the other hand; while; and
electric shock; blitz; lightning attack; sudden and without warning; shocking
library; book collection; paperback book
than; from; out of; except; but; more
to leave; to exit; to leave (on a journey); to depart; to move forward; to come to; to get to
aegis (mythical shield); Aegis (system); Aegis (missile guidance system)
system; lineage; corollary; system (range of strata that correspond to a particular time period); (taxonomical) series
to close (e.g. book, eyes, meeting, etc.); to shut
the world; society; sphere; circle; world-renowned; world-famous
to protect; to guard; to defend; to keep (i.e. a promise); to abide (by the rules); to observe
person; someone; human beings; mankind; human (Homo sapiens); (other) people; others
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
hobby; pastime; tastes; preference; liking
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis