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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

販(はん)売(ばい)員(いん)

x2 | Rank #45,692

sales staff; salesperson

を

x21 | 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.

する

x14 | Rank #18

to do; to carry out; to perform ; to cause to become; to make (into); to turn (into) ; to serve as; to act as; to work as ; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.) ; to judge as being; to view as being; to think of as; to treat as; to use as ; to decide on; to choose ; to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.) ; to be (in a state, condition, etc.) ; to be worth; to cost ; to pass (of time); to elapse

が

x66 | Rank #4

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

ある日(ひ)

x1 | Rank #3,417

one day; (on) a certain day

出(しゅっ)向(こう)

x4 | Rank #19,519

temporary transfer (of an employee); secondment; relocation; loan ; proceeding to; leaving for

命(めい)じる

x1 | Rank #3,775

to order; to command ; to appoint

物(ぶつ)流(りゅう)

x3 | Rank #36,343

physical distribution; distribution of goods; logistics

倉(そう)庫(こ)

x1 | Rank #3,380

storehouse; warehouse; godown

で

x27 | Rank #10

at; in ; at; when ; by; with ; within; in ; and then; so ; and; then ; let me tell you; don't you know

働(はたら)く

x3 | Rank #801

to work; to labor; to labour ; to function; to operate; to be effective; to work (i.e. ... works); to come into play ; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate; to do; to act; to practise; to practice ; to be conjugated

ここ

x8 | Rank #58

here; this place ; this point; here; now ; these past ... (e.g. three years); these last ... ; the next ... (e.g. few days); these next ...

いわゆる

x1 | Rank #3,721

what is called; what you call; what they call; so-called

うば

x2 | Rank #29,061

grandmother

捨(す)てる

x4 | Rank #832

to throw away; to cast away; to dump; to discard ; to abandon; to desert; to leave ; to give up; to resign

別(べつ)名(めい)

x1 | Rank #18,174

another name; different name; synonym ; alias; pseudonym; pen name; nom de plume

追(お)い出(だ)し部屋(べや)

x1 | Rank #103,460

expulsion room; banishment room; boredom room; rooms where employees who cannot be fired are sent to encourage resignation

景(けい)気(き)

x1 | Rank #14,803

business conditions; the market; economic activity; economic climate ; good (economic) times; prosperity; boom ; liveliness; energy; vigour; vigor; spirit

先(さき)行(ゆ)き

x1 | Rank #36,092

the future; future prospects

不(ふ)透(とう)明(めい)

x1 | Rank #43,031

opaque; obscure; murky; turbid ; opacity; obscurity ; unclear; unpredictable; uncertain

昨(さっ)今(こん)

x1 | Rank #19,800

these days; nowadays; recently; lately

企(き)業(ぎょう)

x1 | Rank #4,138

enterprise; business; company; corporation

も

x48 | 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

人(ひと)減(べ)らし

x1 | Rank #121,090

personnel cut; labor cut; labour cut

に

x48 | Rank #5

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

必(ひっ)死(し)

x1 | Rank #1,168

frantic; frenetic; desperate ; inevitable death ; brinkmate (inevitable checkmate)

だ

x25 | Rank #8

be; is

こんな

x5 | Rank #102

this sort of; this kind of; like this; such

あからさま

x1 | Rank #8,229

plain; frank; candid; open; direct; straightforward; unabashed; blatant; flagrant

こと

x18 | Rank #13

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 ...

たって

x3 | Rank #549

even if; even though ; however; no matter how

って

x24 | Rank #15

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 ...

て

x11 | Rank #21

思(おも)う

x6 | Rank #73

to think; to consider; to believe; to reckon ; to think (of doing); to plan (to do) ; to judge; to assess; to regard ; to imagine; to suppose; to dream ; to expect; to look forward to ; to feel; to be (in a state of mind); to desire; to want ; to care (deeply) for; to yearn for; to worry about; to love ; to recall; to remember

うん

x15 | Rank #56

yes; yeah; uh huh ; hum; hmmm; well; erm; huh? ; oof

そうだ

x3 | Rank #130

that is so; that is right; it looks to me; that's my impression ; people say that; it is said that; I hear that

よね

x8 | Rank #126

isn't that right?

何(なん)で

x3 | Rank #261

why?; what for? ; how?; by what means?

こんなに

x1 | Rank #574

so; like this; in this way; this much; to this extent

分(わ)かる

x2 | Rank #136

to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to see; to get; to follow ; to become clear; to be known; to be discovered; to be realized; to be realised; to be found out ; I know!; I think so too!

やすい

x2 | Rank #1,006

easy ; likely to ...; have a tendency to ... ; easy to ...

ひどい

x3 | Rank #753

cruel; heartless; hard; harsh; severe ; violent; intense; strong; heavy; extreme ; very bad; terrible; awful ; excessive; exorbitant; unreasonable; outrageous; unfair; unjust

わけ

x1 | Rank #127

reason; grounds; pretext; excuse; motive

この人(ひと)

x3 | Rank #939

this person; he; she

さん

x33 | Rank #20

Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; Ms.; -san ; politeness marker

デパート

x1 | Rank #9,501

department store ; department

から

x15 | Rank #12

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

くる

x7 | Rank #63

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 ...")

仲(なか)間(ま)

x1 | Rank #479

companion; fellow; friend; mate; comrade; partner; colleague; coworker; associate ; group; company; circle; set; gang ; member of the same category (family, class)

おまけに

x1 | Rank #4,450

to make matters worse; besides; what's more; in addition; on top of that

給(きゅう)料(りょう)

x4 | Rank #4,437

salary; wages; pay

下(さ)げる

x1 | Rank #2,075

to hang; to suspend; to wear (e.g. decoration) ; to lower; to reduce; to bring down ; to demote; to move back; to pull back ; to clear (plates); to remove (food, etc. from table or altar) ; to keep on playing after one has formed a scoring combination with captured cards

私(わたし)たち

x6 | Rank #311

we; us

甘(あま)い

x2 | Rank #1,051

sweet-tasting; sweet; sugary; sugared ; fragrant (smelling); sweet (music) ; lightly salted; light in salt; not spicy ; naive; overly optimistic; soft on; generous; indulgent; easy-going; lenient ; half-hearted; not finished properly ; insufficient; not satisfactory; inadequate; loose ; mild ; tempting; enticing; luring

見(み)る

x2 | Rank #88

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) ...

もん

x5 | Rank #268

gate ; branch of learning based on the teachings of a single master ; division; phylum ; counter for cannons

まったく

x1 | Rank #465

really; truly; entirely; completely; wholly; perfectly ; indeed ; good grief

でも

x12 | Rank #39

but; however; though; nevertheless; still; yet; even so; also; as well ; even ; however; no matter how; even if; even though ; ... or something ; either ... or ...; neither ... nor ... ; pseudo-; quack; in-name-only ; for lack of anything better to do

さ

x5 | Rank #94

-ness ; indicates assertion ; come; come now

仕(し)打(う)ち

x1 | Rank #14,960

(poor) treatment; (bad) behavior; behaviour; action; act

と

x18 | Rank #6

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

逆(ぎゃく)に

x1 | Rank #3,981

conversely; on the contrary

辞(や)める

x2 | Rank #1,420

to resign; to retire; to quit; to leave (one's job, etc.)

なんか

x1 | Rank #128

something like ...; things like ...; someone like ...; the likes of ...

やる

x7 | Rank #66

to do; to undertake; to perform; to play (a game); to study ; to send; to dispatch; to despatch ; to put; to move; to turn (one's head, glance, etc.) ; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status); to let have; to present; to bestow; to confer ; to make (a vehicle) go faster ; to run (a business); to keep; to be engaged in; to practice (law, medicine, etc.); to practise ; to have (food, drink, etc.); to eat; to drink; to smoke ; to hold (a performance); to perform; to show ; to ease (one's mind) ; to harm; to injure; to kill

もんか

x1 | Rank #3,797

one's pupil; one's student; one's follower

言(い)う

x7 | Rank #50

to say; to utter; to declare ; to name; to call ; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise

ところ

x1 | Rank #167

place; spot; scene; site ; address ; district; area; locality ; one's house ; point; aspect; side; facet ; passage (in text); part ; space; room ; thing; matter ; whereupon; as a result ; about to; on the verge of

だけど

x2 | Rank #188

however

正(しょう)直(じき)

x2 | Rank #816

honest; frank; candid; straightforward ; honestly; frankly

時(とき)々(どき)

x1 | Rank #2,541

sometimes; occasionally; at times; from time to time; now and then; once in a while; at intervals ; seasonal; of the season; appropriate (for the season or occasion)

心(こころ)

x2 | Rank #294

mind; heart; spirit ; the meaning of a phrase (riddle, etc.)

折(お)れる

x1 | Rank #2,944

to break; to be broken; to snap; to fracture ; to be folded ; to give in; to back down; to yield; to submit ; to turn (a corner)

なる

x12 | Rank #44

to become; to get; to grow; to turn; to reach; to attain ; to result in; to turn out; to end up; to prove (to be) ; to consist of; to be composed of; to be made up of ; to be completed; to be realized; to succeed; to be attained; to be accomplished ; to change (into); to turn (into); to transform ; to come (to do); to begin (to do); to grow (to do) ; to come to; to amount to; to add up to; to make ; to play (the part of); to act as ; to be used for; to be useful for; to serve as ; to be promoted

嘘(うそ)

x2 | Rank #686

lie; fib; falsehood; untruth ; mistake; error ; unwise move; bad decision ; no way!; unbelievable!; really?!

最(さい)近(きん)

x1 | Rank #485

recently; lately; these days; nowadays; right now ; nearest; closest

腰(こし)

x3 | Rank #687

lower back; waist; hips; lumbar region ; body (of hair, noodle, paper, etc.); resilience; spring

他(ほか)

x1 | Rank #330

another place; some other place; somewhere else; outside ; another (person or thing); other; different; something else; someone else; the rest; et al. ; beyond (one's expectations, imagination, etc.); outside ; except; but; other than; apart from ; besides; in addition to; as well as; on top of

仕(し)事(ごと)

x2 | Rank #223

work; job; labor; labour; business; task; assignment; occupation; employment ; work

探(さが)す

x1 | Rank #662

to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to seek ; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer); to fish around

気(き)力(りょく)

x1 | Rank #6,845

willpower; energy; vitality

今(いま)まで

x1 | Rank #477

until now; till now; up to now; up to the present; so far

だったら

x1 | Rank #319

if it's the case

心(こころ)から

x1 | Rank #3,740

from the bottom of one's heart; heartily; sincerely