noun:

• the hole (between third and short); area between the third baseman and shortstop - Baseball term

noun / ~する noun:

• working in the field in fine weather and reading at home in rainy weather; living in quiet retirement dividing time between work and intellectual pursuits - four character idiom

noun / adjectival noun / adverb:

• one's heart is filled with even deeper emotion; feeling the emotion all the more deeply - four character idiom

expression:

• no mortal escapes death; all men must die; he who has life, certainly has death [literal] - proverb

ichidan verb:

• to crop; to shear; to cut or trim something evenly; to make all the same length - obscure term

expression:

• intending to persuade someone and instead being persuaded oneself; going for wool and coming home shorn; the biter bit; the mummy hunter himself becomes a mummy [literal] - idiom

noun:

• PASMO (rechargeable prepaid IC card that can be used as a train and bus ticket in the greater Tokyo region and also as electric money in some stores) ➜ スイカ

adverb:

• about; roughly; approximately ➜ おおよそ
• generally; on the whole; as a rule
• completely; quite; entirely; altogether; totally; not at all (with neg. verb)

noun / ~の noun:

• outline; gist

expression / ichidan verb:

• to cease being possessed (by the spirit of a fox); to be released from the grasp of the fox spirit; to be exorcised from the fox spirit

noun:

• light-coloured ceramic cooking pan with a lid and short spout
• aluminum saucepan with a handle (usu. wooden) and often with snowflake-style embossed pattern (aluminium) - usu. 雪平鍋

noun:

• Japanese bondage torture (hands and feet are behind the victim's back, and they are hanged from the ceiling with a rock on their back)

noun:

• yamanba; manba; girl or young woman adhering to a fashion trend often characterized by extremely gaudy and colourful facial make up, heavily tanned skin and hair dyed in a bright hue - colloquialism ➜ 山姥・ガングロ

adjectival noun / noun:

• too many; too much; excessive; superfluous; superabundant; extra; spare; surplus - often as 余計に

adjectival noun / ~の noun / noun:

• unnecessary; needless; uncalled-for; otiose

adverb:

• abundantly; excessively; needlessly; all the more

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

• to be furnished with; to be provided with; to be equipped with
• to be possessed of; to be endowed with; to be gifted with
• to be among; to be one of

adverb / ~の noun:

• much more; still more; all the more; more than ever

noun / ~の noun:

• single layer (or storey, etc.)

adverb:

• rather; sooner; preferably - archaism ➜ いっそ

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to cut loose; to act without restraint; to throw off all inhibitions; to go wild

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to outwit; to outsmart; to counterplot; to defeat - idiom ➜ 裏かく
• to pierce something all the way through

adverb:

• not always; not necessarily; not all; not entirely - used with neg. verb

noun:

• the whole year; all the year

pronoun:

• such and such (when being vague, placeholder, etc.); this and that

interjection:

• What?; What is the matter?; What are the items?

noun:

• diver's exposure suit; body suits, wet suits, and dry suits; suit which protects divers from exposure and abrasion

noun:

• Suica (rechargeable prepaid IC card that can be used as a train pass in the greater Tokyo, Osaka and Sendai regions and also as electric money in some stores) ➜ パスモ

interjection:

• good-bye; see you later; bye-bye - Hokkaidō dialect

conjunction:

• then; and then; and; if so; because then - Hokkaidō dialect ➜ そうしたら

noun / suffix:

• place; spot; scene; site - also pronounced どころ when a suffix
• address
• district; area; locality
• one's house
• point; aspect; side; facet ➜ いいとこ
• passage (in text); part
• space; room
• thing; matter

noun:

• whereupon; as a result - after the plain past form of a verb
• about to; on the verge of - after present form of a verb
• was just doing; was in the process of doing; have just done; just finished doing - after past form of a verb

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to look after; to take care of; to keep; to hold on to; to keep in custody
• to be put in charge of; to be given responsibility for; to be entrusted with
• to withhold (an announcement); to reserve (judgment); to leave undecided
• to take upon oneself (to do); to settle (a matter) oneself