Lesson 3

15 Kanji

54 Vocabulary

date (with someone) ②date (day)
tea (usu. green) ②tea break (at work) ③tea ceremony
water (esp. cool, fresh water, e.g. drinking water) ②fluid (esp. in an animal tissue) ③flood ④water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout
house ②family ③lineage
house ②one's house
morning ②breakfast ③next morning
tomorrow ②near future
when ②normal times
today ②these days
(approximate) time ②suitable time (or condition) ③time of year
to go ②to proceed ③to continue ④to have an orgasm ⑤to trip
to return ②to leave (of a guest, customer, etc.) ③to get home
to hear ②to listen (e.g. to music) ③to ask ④to hear about
to drink ②to smoke (tobacco) ③to engulf ④to keep down
to talk ②to tell ③to speak (a language)
to read ②to recite (e.g. a sutra) ③to predict ④to decipher
to get up ②to wake up ③to occur (usu. of unfavorable incidents)
to eat ②to live on (e.g. a salary)
to sleep (lying down) ②to go to bed ③to lie down ④to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse)
to see ②to examine ③to try ... ④to see (that) ...
to come (spatially or temporally) ②to come back ③to come to be ④to come from ⑤to come to (i.e. "when it comes to spinach ...")
to do ②to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.) ③to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B ④verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs") ⑤creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
study ②diligence ③experience ④discount
good ②sufficient ③profitable (deal, business offer, etc.) ④OK
fast ②early ③premature ④easy
remainder ②(not) very ③extreme ④more than
(not) at all ②wholly ③extremely
mostly ②probably ③most ④ordinary ⑤proper
a little ②just a minute ③hey! ④thanks, but no
sometimes ②seasonal
nicely ②frequently ③I'm glad that you ... ④(you have) quite the nerve to
but ②even ③however ④pseudo- ⑤for lack of anything better to do
Note: In order to match dictionary entries, some of the words listed here are shown in simpler forms than what you see in the book, and compound words may be split into multiple entries.
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