noun:

• bench (i.e. for bathroom); seat; small piece of furniture upon which one can sit on ➜ 腰掛け

noun:

• grasping the trend; firmly understanding how the situation is developing; getting a good sense of how things are changing - four character idiom

godan ~る verb:

• to tattle; to tell on; to inform a superior of someone's actions - colloquialism

noun:

• multiple-system operator; multi-system operator; MSO; operator of multiple cable or direct-broadcast satellite television systems

expression / ichidan verb:

• to keep one's wits about one; to be on one's guard; to be wary of trickery - idiom ➜ 眉唾物【まゆつばもの】

noun:

• this corrupt or degenerate world; this world or life; the world of mankind - Buddhism term

noun:

• certified center for early childhood education and care; ECEC; certified child center; type of combined day-care center and kindergarten

expression / adverb:

• actually; in fact; as a matter of fact ➜ 実際は【じっさいは】

noun:

• certified center for early childhood education and care; ECEC; certified child center; type of combined day-care center and kindergarten - abbreviation ➜ 認定こども園

noun:

• new old stock; NOS; unused goods of old manufacture

expression:

• hopelessly inaccurate; not even remotely close; can't hit the side of a barn - colloquialism

noun:

• slagheap; slag heap; pile of coal waste ➜ ボタ山【ボタやま】

noun / ~の noun:

• irregularity; unevenness; asymmetry; lack of uniformity

noun / ~の noun:

• blueness; greenness; tinge of blue (green)

expression / noun:

• evil influence; (evil) clutches; tentacles of evil ➜ 魔手

noun:

• cut paper; paper cut in half; paper scrap; the art of cutting paper (in contrast to origami)

noun:

• disguised contracting; fake subcontract; hiring a temporary employee and paying for the completion of the work rather than the work itself, thereby avoiding have to pay benefits

interjection:

• oh; ah; I'll be darned; expression of surprise

expression:

• through; throughout; through (the good offices of); by way of

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to rotate in one's hands; to treat; to manage; to dispose of

noun:

• restive horse; runaway horse; out of control horse

noun:

• deepest snow; maximum snowfall; maximum depth of snow cover

godan ~く verb / transitive:

• to like; to love; to be fond of

noun:

• Dutchman's pipe cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum); night-blooming cereus; queen of the night

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to become hard and fibrous; to go to seed; to have passed one's prime; to have lost the first bloom of one's youth