junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school
second-year student; biennial
(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season
establishing; proving; ascertaining; identifying; confirming
to attempt; to test; to try out
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
unreasonable; unnatural; impossible; forcible; forced; excessive (work, etc.); immoderate
this time; now; next time; another time; recently; lately
to take out; to get out; to put out; to reveal; to submit (e.g. thesis); to turn in; to publish
to thrust (something) into (something); to cram; to plunge into; to charge into; to delve into (a matter); to go into depth; to press (someone) about
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
to roll about with laughter; to be convulsed with laughter; to laugh one's head off
to be delighted; to be glad; to congratulate; to gratefully accept
like; similar to; (I) think (that); (I) have a feeling (that); feels like; feels similar to
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted
endorsing and questioning the preceding statement; lamenting reflections on the preceding statement
there (place relatively near listener); there (place just mentioned); that place; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised); (arch.) you
important; momentous; essential; principal; major
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
in comparison to; rather than
previously; before; first; before (something or someone else); beforehand; in advance
this; last (couple of years, etc.); these; you (as in "you liar")
now; the present time; just now; another; more
next (to); adjoining; adjacent; house next door; neighbouring house; next-door neighbour
something; some kind of; for some reason
to present; to submit; to tender; to hold out
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
approximately; about; to (about) the extent that; (almost) enough that; as ... as ...; like
to one's heart's content; as much as one wants; as hard as one can; resolution; decisiveness; determination
script; libretto; scenario
according to; reads; reading; is written; says; states
eh?; what?; yes; that's correct; (arch.) strengthens a question, assertion, etc.; (arch.) hey
here; this place; this point; here; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ...
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to decipher; to count
you said; he said; if ... then; do you seriously think that; I already told you; you should know by now that; the said ...
incomprehensible; nonsensical; puzzling; I don't get it; I'm confused; I'm lost
that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ...; given that ...
place; location; room; space; basho; wrestling tournament
to read out; to read aloud; to call out; to finish reading; to read through
let me see; well; errr ...; uhh ...
finally; at last; in the end; after all; never (happened)