garbage can; rubbish bin; trash can; dustbin
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
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
meeting; rendezvous; encounter; confluence
thing; matter; incident; occurrence; circumstances; situation; work
fat; thick; deep (of a voice); thick; daring; shameless
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
that day; the very same day
one; for one thing; only; (not) even; just (e.g. "just try it"); some kind of; one type of
to meet (by chance); to come across; to meet (e.g. of rivers, highways, etc.); to emerge and engage (an enemy)
senior high school; high school
second-year student; biennial
that is to say; that is; in short; in brief; clogging; obstruction; shrinkage
opening ceremony (of the school term)
after school (at the end of the day)
being on duty; person on duty
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
classroom; lecture room; department (in a university); class; lessons; school (for a particular discipline)
cleaning; sweeping; dusting; scrubbing
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 assign; to allot; to allocate; to divide among; to distribute; to prorate
to become used to seeing; to be familiar with
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
together with; as X, then Y (e.g. as we age we gain wisdom, as wine matures it becomes more valuable, etc.)
(not so) much; (not) very
to get dirty; to become dirty; to become sullied; to become corrupted; to lose one's chastity
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
to sweep; to brush; to clean; to gather silkworms
that; it; then; that point (in time); (arch.) there; (arch.) you
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
to finish; to end; to merely result in something less severe than expected; to feel at ease; to feel unease or guilt for troubling someone; to be sorry
same; identical; equal; anyway; anyhow; in either case
group; party; team; squad; section
meeting up; gathering; assembly; set
rock-paper-scissors (game); janken
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.)
rubbish; trash; garbage; refuse
to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign
charge; duty; person in charge; connection; linking
to decide; to choose; to clinch (a victory); to decide (the outcome of a match); to persist in doing; to go through with; to always do
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
all members; all hands; everyone; everybody; whole crew