noun:

• society in which individuals are isolated and have weak personal links between each other

noun:

• gap year; yearlong break taken between high school and university

noun / ~する noun:

• going in and out; entering and exiting

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• visiting regularly; frequenting; having regular dealings with

noun:

• income and expenditure; incomings and outgoings
• increase and decrease; surplus and deficit; fluctuation
• fight; trouble; quarrel; dispute
• indentations (e.g. of a coastline)

noun:

• free action; free activity; acting at one's own discretion; taking one's own course; free hand; independent action

expression / noun:

• a thorn in one's side; a pain in the butt (often someone higher in rank, ability, etc.); nuisance; something in the way - idiom

expression:

• one cannot shake the will of even the lowliest man; a person's will should be respected; even a menial deserves his convictions - proverb

noun:

• compatibility between the pot and the bonsai

expression / noun:

• one third; a third part

noun:

• a cut above; one step above

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to feel dizzy; to have blood rush to one's head
• to lose one's cool
• to be obsessed; to be infatuated
• to become conceited

noun:

• search for a husband for one's daughter

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to surrender one's chastity to a man

noun:

• driving skill; one's skill as a driver

expression:

• one hundred years ago; a hundred year previously

noun:

• way of wearing; way one wears a garment

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to bake; to plate; to print; to fire (e.g. pottery); to stain
• to burn into one's memory; to sear into one's consciousness

expression:

• we have piped unto you and ye have not danced; people ignoring one's invitation or effort to do something together - from Matthew 11:17 - idiom

noun:

• point between life and death; verge of death

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick; to get stuck; to get caught; to get jammed; to clog
• to be unavailable; to be busy; to be occupied; to be full
• to be piled up (e.g. of work)
• to halt (in one's speech); to stumble (over one's words); to stutter; to stammer
• to feel blocked (of one's chest or throat, due to grief, anxiety, illness, etc.); to feel pressure; to feel pain ➜ 痞える【つかえる】

noun:

• heart and soul; one's soul (heart)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to exercise one's authority as a (noun); to act as a (noun) - after noun ➜ 先輩風を吹かす

noun / ~の noun:

• unilaterality (e.g. of a contract); one-sidedness (e.g. of a treaty)

expression / ichidan verb:

• to be a good match for; to stand a chance against; to be able to compete with; to hold one's own - often in neg.

noun:

• someone haughty and boastful at home but meek and reserved outside; being a lion at home and a mouse abroad

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to expose one's true colors (colours); to expose one's true character - idiom