Jiten beta

indicates possessive ; nominalizes verbs and adjectives ; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases ; indicates a confident conclusion ; indicates emotional emphasis ; indicates question

憂(ゆう)鬱(うつ)

| x2 | Rank #9,845

depression; melancholy; dejection; gloom; despondency

とある

| x3 | Rank #5,164

a certain ...

買(か)い物(もの)

| x9 | Rank #1,737

shopping; purchased goods

にて

| x1 | Rank #2,037

at; in ; at; when ; by; with ; and then; so

その

| x239 | Rank #23

that; the ; part (as in "part two") ; um ...; er ...; uh ...

恋(こい)

| x10 | Rank #1,197

(romantic) love

ばる

| x7 | Rank #8,185

to be prominently ...; to be persistently ...

向(む)かう

| x11 | Rank #488

to face ; to go towards; to head towards

先(さき)

| x5 | Rank #333

point; tip; end; nozzle ; head (of a line); front ; first; before; ahead (of) ; (the way) ahead; beyond ; future ; previous; prior; former; recent; last ; destination; address; place where you do something ; rest (e.g. of a story); continuation; remaining part ; the other party

言(こと)葉(ば)

| x98 | Rank #267

language; dialect ; word; phrase; expression; term ; speech; (manner of) speaking; (use of) language ; words; remark; statement; comment ; learning to speak; language acquisition

で

| x102 | Rank #27

without doing ...

しか

| x13 | Rank #173

nothing but; except; no more than

知(し)る

| x18 | Rank #98

to know; to be aware (of); to be conscious (of); to learn (of); to find out; to discover ; to sense; to feel; to notice; to realize ; to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to appreciate ; to remember; to be familiar with; to be acquainted with ; to experience; to go through; to know (e.g. hardship) ; to get acquainted with (a person); to get to know ; to have to do with; to be concerned with; to be one's concern; to be one's responsibility

色(いろ)

| x19 | Rank #926

colour; color; hue; tint; tinge; shade ; complexion; skin colour; skin color ; look (on one's face); expression ; appearance; air; feeling ; personality; character ; tone (of one's voice, etc.); tune; sound; ring ; love; lust; sensuality; love affair ; lover; paramour ; beauty; sexiness; physical appeal ; kind; type; variety

日(にっ)記(き)帳(ちょう)

| x1 | Rank #40,944

diary

二(に)

| x39 | Rank #383

two; 2

年(とし)

| x25 | Rank #152

year ; age; years ; past one's prime; old age

目(め)

| x15 | Rank #130

eye; eyeball ; eyesight; sight; vision ; look; stare; gaze; glance ; notice; attention; observation; eyes (of the world, public, etc.) ; an experience ; viewpoint ; discrimination; discernment; judgement; eye (e.g. for quality) ; (an) appearance ; chance (of success); possibility (of a good result) ; spacing (between crossed strands of a net, mesh, etc.); opening; stitch; texture; weave

五(ご)月(がつ)

| x1 | Rank #15,057

May ; fifth month of the lunar calendar

寒(さむ)い

| x4 | Rank #1,334

cold (e.g. weather) ; uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull; weak; corny

朝(あさ)

| x2 | Rank #503

morning ; breakfast

駅(えき)

| x9 | Rank #1,770

railway station; train station ; staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan) ; counter for railway stations and bus stations

前(まえ)に

| x22 | Rank #161

ahead; before; ago

て

| x69 | Rank #77

you said; he said; she said; they said ; even if ; do you seriously think that ; I already told you; you should know by now that; of course ; the said ...; said ... ; says that ... ; I hear that ... ; as for the term ... ; as for ...

振(ふ)り切(き)る

| x4 | Rank #6,985

to shake off; to shake free from ; to swing completely (bat, club, etc.); to take a full swing ; to break off from (pursuer); to pull away ; to reject (request); to ignore

ため

| x35 | Rank #179

good; advantage; benefit; welfare ; sake; purpose; objective; aim ; consequence; result; effect ; affecting; regarding; concerning

スピード

| x6 | Rank #2,477

speed

で

| x573 | Rank #9

at; in ; at; when ; by; with

彼(かの)女(じょ)

| x89 | Rank #300

she; her ; girlfriend

と

| x1026 | Rank #6

if; when ; and ; with ; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.) ; promoted pawn ; indicates a question

餃子

| x9 | Rank #16,168

gyoza; pot sticker; crescent-shaped pan-fried dumplings stuffed with minced pork and vegetables

おん

| x1 | Rank #6,522

male (animal, plant)

ノンアルコール

| x2 | Rank #38,020

non-alcoholic; alcohol-free

そして

| x127 | Rank #170

and; and then; thus; and now; and finally

あと

| x28 | Rank #138

behind; rear ; after; later ; remainder; the rest ; more (e.g. five more minutes); left ; also; in addition ; descendant; successor; heir ; after one's death ; past; previous

話(はなし)

| x45 | Rank #97

talk; speech; chat; conversation ; topic; subject ; discussions; negotiation; argument ; rumor; talk; hearsay ; tale; story; fable ; circumstances; particulars

あとがき

| x1 | Rank #11,265

afterword; postscript

よし

| x6 | Rank #347

reason; significance; cause ; piece of information that one has heard; I hear that ...; it is said that ...

上(あ)がる

| x6 | Rank #557

to rise; to go up; to come up; to ascend; to be raised ; to enter (esp. from outdoors); to come in; to go in ; to enter (a school); to advance to the next grade ; to get out (of water); to come ashore; to be washed ashore ; to float atop the water; to surface from the sea (e.g. of a corpse); to rise to the surface ; to increase; to be raised (e.g. of a salary); to rise ; to improve; to make progress ; to be promoted; to advance ; to be made (of profit, etc.) ; to occur (esp. of a favourable result)

中(ちゅう)学(がく)

| x10 | Rank #2,236

junior high school; middle school; lower secondary school

年(ねん)生(せい)

| x23 | Rank #4,536

nth-year student; nth-year pupil

初(しょ)夏(か)

| x2 | Rank #18,779

early summer ; fourth month of the lunar calendar

教(きょう)室(しつ)

| x12 | Rank #1,971

classroom; lecture room ; department (in a university) ; class; lessons; course ; school (for a particular discipline); teaching establishment

日南

| x209 | Rank #68,644

sunny place; in the sun

葵(あおい)

| x114 | Rank #12,372

mallow (any plant of family Malvaceae) ; Asarum caulescens (species of wild ginger)

は

| x1703 | Rank #2

indicates sentence topic ; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated) ; adds emphasis

一(いち)

| x62 | Rank #155

one; 1 ; best ; first; foremost ; beginning; start ; a (single); one (of many) ; ace ; bottom string (on a shamisen, etc.)

学(がっ)期(き)

| x8 | Rank #8,413

school term; semester

中(ちゅう)間(かん)テスト

| x2 | Rank #24,484

midterm (mid-semester) test or exam

結(けっ)果(か)

| x21 | Rank #622

result; consequence; outcome; effect ; as a result of ...; as a consequence of ...; after ...; following ... ; bearing fruit; fruiting

を

| x1652 | Rank #3

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.

見(み)る

| x32 | Rank #63

to see; to look; to watch; to view; to observe ; to examine; to look over; to assess; to check; to judge ; to look after; to attend to; to take care of; to keep an eye on ; to experience; to meet with (misfortune, success, etc.) ; to try ...; to have a go at ...; to give ... a try ; to see (that) ...; to find (that) ...

ながら

| x185 | Rank #209

while; during; as ; while; although; though; despite; in spite of; notwithstanding ; all; both ; as (e.g. "as always", "as long ago"); in (e.g. "in tears") ; while doing something else (at the same time)

一人(ひとり)

| x15 | Rank #632

one person ; being alone; being by oneself ; being single; being unmarried ; by oneself; alone ; just; only; simply

小(ちい)さい

| x9 | Rank #766

small; little; tiny ; slight; below average (in degree, amount, etc.); minor; small ; low (e.g. sound); soft (e.g. voice) ; unimportant; petty; insignificant; trifling; trivial ; young; juvenile

頷(うなず)く

| x7 | Rank #7,332

to nod; to bow one's head in assent; to agree

そこ

| x77 | Rank #124

there (place relatively near listener) ; there (place just mentioned); that place ; then (of some incident just spoken of); that (of point just raised) ; you

に

| x1514 | Rank #4

at (place, time); in; on; during ; to (direction, state); toward; into ; for (purpose) ; because of (reason); for; with ; by; from ; as (i.e. in the role of) ; per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month") ; and; in addition to ; if; although

記(しる)す

| x1 | Rank #4,847

to write down; to note down; to jot down; to take a note of ; to mention; to describe; to give an account of ; to inscribe; to mark; to brand ; to remember; to engrave (in one's mind)

順(じゅん)位(い)

| x6 | Rank #10,081

order; rank; position (e.g. in a race); precedence

三(さん)

| x63 | Rank #836

three; 3

位(くらい)

| x19 | Rank #2,731

throne; crown; (nobleman's) seat ; government position; court rank ; social standing; rank; class; echelon; rung ; grade (of quality, etc.); level; tier; rank ; position of a figure (e.g. tens, thousands); digit; (decimal) place

まだ

| x42 | Rank #81

still; as yet; only ; (not) yet ; more; (more) still ; at least; comparatively; relatively ; unfinished; incomplete; not yet done

一(いち)度(ど)

| x10 | Rank #424

once; one time; on one occasion ; temporarily; for a moment ; one degree; one tone; one musical interval

も

| x546 | Rank #7

too; also; in addition; as well; (not) either (in a negative sentence) ; both A and B; A as well as B; neither A nor B (in a negative sentence) ; even; as much as; as many as; as far as; as long as; no less than; no fewer than ; even if; even though; although; in spite of ; further; more; again; another; the other

取(と)る

| x11 | Rank #247

to take; to pick up; to grab; to catch; to hold ; to pass; to hand; to give ; to get; to obtain; to acquire; to win; to receive; to earn; to take (e.g. a vacation) ; to adopt (a method, proposal, etc.); to take (a measure, attitude, etc.); to choose ; to remove; to get rid of; to take off ; to take away; to steal; to rob ; to eat; to have (e.g. lunch); to take (e.g. vitamins) ; to pick (e.g. flowers); to gather; to extract (e.g. juice); to catch (e.g. fish); to harvest (a crop) ; to take up (time, space); to occupy; to spare; to set aside ; to secure; to reserve; to save; to put aside; to keep

こと

| x439 | Rank #15

thing; matter ; incident; occurrence; event; something serious; trouble; crisis ; circumstances; situation; state of affairs ; work; business; affair ; after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to ; nominalizing suffix ; pretending to ...; playing make-believe ... ; alias; also known as; otherwise known as; or ; necessity; need ; you should ...; I advise that you ...; it's important to ...

ない

| x106 | Rank #32

nonexistent; not being (there) ; unowned; not had; unpossessed ; unique ; not; impossible; won't happen ; not ; to not be; to have not

ある

| x80 | Rank #30

to be; to exist; to live ; to have ; to be located ; to be equipped with ; to happen; to come about ; to exist (in a completed state); to be (something unchanged in its current state)

が

| x1173 | Rank #5

indicates the subject of a sentence ; indicates possession ; but; however; (and) yet; though; although; while ; and ; used after an introductory remark or explanation ; regardless of ...; whether ... (or not); no matter ... ; indicates a desire or hope ; softens a statement ; indicates doubt ; indicates scorn

学(がく)年(ねん)末(まつ)

| x1 | Rank #54,048

end of school year

テスト

| x9 | Rank #2,215

test (of ability, knowledge, etc.); exam; examination; quiz ; test (of performance, quality, etc.); trial ; rehearsal

から

| x344 | Rank #13

from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since ; from (originator); by ; because; since ; out of (constituent, part) ; through (e.g. window, vestibule) ; after; since ; expresses sympathy or warning

六(ろく)

| x6 | Rank #3,440

six; 6

つ

| x35 | Rank #315

Tsu (city in Mie) ; harbour; harbor; port ; ferry

上(あ)げる

| x14 | Rank #669

to raise; to elevate ; to move something (to a higher place); to put onto (e.g. a shelf) ; to increase (price, quality, status, etc.); to raise (a wage) ; to show someone (into a room); to let in (e.g. a guest) ; to give ; to enrol (one's child in school); to enroll; to send (one's child; e.g. to college) ; to develop (talent, skill, etc.); to improve ; to earn (something desirable); to achieve (e.g. a good result); to obtain ; to promote (someone) ; to complete; to finish

ことになる

| x9 | Rank #781

to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that ; to be the result (of); to be the outcome ; to be the reason (for)

一(いち)年(ねん)生(せい)

| x7 | Rank #11,745

first-year student; first-year pupil ; beginner; novice; newcomer; person who has been in a role for less than a year ; annual ; annual plant

落(お)とす

| x4 | Rank #776

to drop; to lose; to let fall; to shed (light); to cast (one's gaze); to pour in (liquid); to leave behind ; to clean off (dirt, makeup, paint, etc.); to remove (e.g. stains or facial hair); to lose; to spend money at a certain place; to omit; to leave out; to secretly let escape ; to lose (a match); to reject (an applicant); to fail (a course); to defeat (in an election) ; to lower (e.g. shoulders or voice); to lessen (e.g. production or body weight); to worsen (quality); to reduce (e.g. rank or popularity); to speak badly of; to make light of; to fall into straitened circumstances ; to fall into (e.g. a dilemma or sin); to make one's own; to have one's bid accepted; to force surrender; to take (e.g. an enemy camp or castle); to forcefully convince; to press for a confession; to deal with ; to download; to copy from a computer to another medium ; to make someone swoon (judo) ; to finish a story (e.g. with the punch line) ; to finish (a period, e.g. of fasting) ; to win over; to seduce; to conquer (unwillingness)

少(すこ)しずつ

| x19 | Rank #1,978

little by little; bit by bit

ではある

| x2 | Rank #4,429

to be (in contrast to something that is not the case)

着(ちゃく)実(じつ)

| x1 | Rank #10,822

steady; sound; solid; reliable; trustworthy

伸(の)ばす

| x3 | Rank #1,905

to grow long (e.g. hair, nails) ; to lengthen; to extend; to stretch ; to reach out; to hold out ; to straighten; to smooth out ; to spread evenly (dough, cream, etc.) ; to dilute; to thin out ; to postpone ; to prolong ; to strengthen; to develop; to expand

くる

| x86 | Rank #46

to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to arrive ; to come back; to do ... and come back ; to come to be; to become; to get; to grow; to continue ; to come from; to be caused by; to derive from ; to come to (e.g. "when it comes to spinach ...")

ひとつひとつ

| x1 | Rank #12,769

one-by-one; separately; in detail

丁(てい)寧(ねい)

| x1 | Rank #2,348

polite; courteous; civil ; careful; close; thorough; conscientious

積(つ)み上(あ)げる

| x3 | Rank #7,209

to pile up; to make a heap; to lay (e.g. bricks) ; to acquire (e.g. experience); to build (a reputation)

努(ど)力(りょく)

| x17 | Rank #1,294

effort; exertion; endeavour; endeavor; hard work; striving