noun:

• somebody who has wild fantasies; someone who hears voices; someone who is crazy

particle:

• yes?; no?; isn't it?; is it? - used at sentence-end; indicates a question (sometimes rhetorical) - familiar language - Kansai dialect ➜ かい

noun / adjectival noun / ~の noun:

• everyday occurrence; commonplace of life; nothing out of the ordinary - four character idiom

expression / noun / ~の noun:

• not knowing one's social position; overweening; overreaching; forgetting who one is

expression / ichidan verb:

• to muster one's courage; to resolve oneself; to ready oneself for what is to come - obscure term ➜ 覚悟を決める

suffix:

• entirely; completely; all; nothing but

noun:

• gifted young person who shows much promise; unrecognized genius; great person whose talent is hidden under a bushel - four character idiom

temporal noun:

• that much; as much; to that extent; only that; that alone; no more than that

expression:

• cannot help (doing); have no choice but to; am compelled to; am obliged to; it is incumbent upon (me) to ➜ ざるを得ない【ざるをえない】

noun:

• performing solo (by oneself); having the stage to oneself; being in sole command; eclipsing (outshining) the others; field of activity in which one is unrivaled (unrivalled) - four character idiom

expression / adjective:

• easy; trifling; harmless; of no concern; nothing
• nothing of the sort; not at all - in the form of ~でもなんでもない ➜ ではない

~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• gasping for breath; at one's last gasp; breathing feebly; on the brink of death; more dead than alive - four character idiom

adverb:

• only; merely; just; at most; no more than

adverb:

• even at the best of times; already; (even) under normal circumstances; in addition to; as it is

adverb:

• even at the best of times; already; (even) under normal circumstances; in addition to; as it is ➜ 唯でさえ

expression / auxiliary adjective:

• cannot help (doing); have no choice but to; am compelled to; am obliged to; it is incumbent upon (me) to - after the -nai stem of a verb

adverb:

• unintentionally; unconsciously; by mistake; heedlessly; against one's better judgement (judgment) - onomatopoeia ➜ つい

noun:

• (getting a) perfect score; scoring 100; grading students on a scale of one hundred; doing perfectly (in a test); leaving nothing to be desired - four character idiom

noun:

• Regional Rapid Service (JR West); Section Rapid Service; RRS; SRS; train service which is local for one section and express for another

adjectival noun / noun:

• recklessness; rashness; foolhardiness; temerity; without watching where one is going [literal]

noun:

• limited express (train, faster than an express) - abbreviation ➜ 特別急行
• great hurry

noun:

• beast (i.e. any animal other than man)
• person reborn into the animal realm - Buddhism term ➜ 畜生道
• brute (i.e. a contemptible human being)

interjection:

• damn it; damn; Christ; for Christ's sake - usually written using kana alone

godan ~る verb (irregular):

• to also be (implies that as well as the earlier stated this is also the case) - である with も; formal, literary ➜ である
• to be ... or something

particle / conjunction:

• although (it is a certain time or something is in a certain condition)

noun / ~する noun:

• clothes (that one is wearing); wearing clothes Antonym: 脱衣