noun:

• 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

suffix noun:

• nominalizing suffix ➜ 事【ごと】
• pretending to ...; playing make-believe ... ➜ 事【ごと】

noun / suffix noun:

• alias; aka; nickname; alternative name; also known as - esp. as ＡことＢ or ＡとはＢのことだ (Ａ alias, Ｂ formal)

noun:

• crown (of head); summit (of mountain); spire - esp. 頂
• easy win for one - 頂き,戴き
• something received - 頂き,戴き

noun:

• place for boarding vehicles; bus stop; bus terminal; railway platform; taxi stand; jetty; wharf

adjectival noun / noun / ~の noun:

• distorted; crooked; irregular; warped

noun / adjectival noun:

• oval; elliptical shape

noun:

• round, wooden container for cooked rice ➜ 飯櫃【めしびつ】
• oval coin

noun:

• aftercare; care for patients after discharge from hospital - Medicine term
• after-sales service - From English "after care" ➜ アフターサービス

noun:

• Jim Crow; discrim. term for a black person - sensitive
• segregation of blacks; discrimination against blacks

noun / ~する noun:

• separating words in Japanese with spaces (e.g. in kana-only books for children) - Linguistics term

noun:

• chance of going out; opportunity (to succeed)
• musical accompaniment for an actor going on stage

noun:

• woman's beauty or charms; love affair with a woman; lust for women

~の noun / noun:

• attractive to men; in a style (appearance, look, etc.) that men fall for

noun:

• amorous woman

noun:

• non-smokers' rights; right for nonsmokers to not be exposed to smoking in public space

expression / adjective:

• too much for one to handle; beyond one's capacity; unmanageable; uncontrollable; incorrigible; obstreperous

noun / prefix noun:

• chicken bones (e.g. for soup); chicken carcass ➜ 鶏がら

noun:

• poor-quality coke (coal)

suffix:

• left-overs; remnants

noun:

• aged paste; microbially fermented weak adhesive for restoration of Japanese works of art on paper

noun:

• aiming for a lucky break (e.g. in horse racing, betting on an unlikely horse)

noun:

• man only used to receive meals from; man who always pays for food - slang ➜ ミツグ君

noun:

• love of a knight for a courtly lady (upon which he is unable to act) - From German "Minne"

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to learn a lesson (usu. from an unpleasant experience); to be good for someone

noun:

• stuffing; padding; filler
• stuffing (e.g. for roast meat)
• order problems with an intermediary seller

adverb:

• for a long time; since long ago; always; already; far in advance (e.g. reservation)

noun:

• door handle (usu. D-shaped handle for pulling open doors); doorhandle ➜ ドアノブ

noun:

• paid media (marketing activity that is paid for; e.g. advertising) ➜ オウンドメディア・アーンドメディア

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to suddenly understand (esp. on basis of experience or memory); to come to mind; to recall (in a flash); to be reminded of; to call to mind; to think of; to strike on; to hit on an answer; to seize the crux of a problem

conjunction:

• and; thereupon; because of that

noun:

• man and wife; married couple