My words

水菜

みずな ミズナ

mizuna (Brassica rapa var. nipposinica), potherb mustard, Elatostema umbellatum var. majus (variety of plant related to the nettles)

灰塗れ

はいまみれ

covered with ashes

妃

ひ きさき

princess, consort

摘む

つまむ つむ

to pluck, to pick, to trim

木苺

きいちご キイチゴ

raspberry (any plant of genus Rubus, esp. Rubus palmatus var. coptophyllus)

茨

いばら イバラ

wild rose, briar, thorn, cusp, thorny shrub

あたふた

in a hurry, hastily, in feverish haste

点心

てんしん てんじん

Zen monk's early morning meal, refreshment, cakes, simple Chinese food, dim sum

大惨事

だいさんじ

great disaster, horrible tragedy, catastrophe, catastrophic event, catastrophic incident, dire calamity, terrible disaster, apocalypse

リカオン

African wild dog (Lycaon pictus)

快く

こころよく

comfortably, cheerfully, willingly, gladly

高価

こうか

high price

不景気

ふけいき

business recession, hard times, depression, gloom, sullenness, cheerlessness

確実性

かくじつせい

certainty

前置き

まえおき

preface, introduction

動き

うごき

movement, move, motion, trend, development, change, fluctuation

前後

まえしりえ ぜんご

front and rear, front and back, before and behind, before and after, order, context, consequences, inversion, reversion, getting out of order, co-occurring, around, about, approximately, nearly

主語

しゅご

subject

評価

ひょうか

valuation, estimation, assessment, evaluation, rating, to value, to assess, to rate, to estimate value, to appreciate, to value highly, to acknowledge the value (of something), valuation, evaluation

行動

こうどう

action, conduct, behaviour, behavior, mobilization, mobilisation, behavior

言語活動

げんごかつどう

linguistic activity, language (as defined by Saussure; langue and parole)

推量

すいりょう

guess

祖母

そぼ ばば おおば おば うば

grandmother

成立

せいりつ

coming into existence, arrangements, establishment, conclusion, completion, to come into existence, to be true, to hold (i.e. hold true)

予想

よそう

expectation, anticipation, prediction, forecast, conjecture, prediction

就職

しゅうしょく

finding employment, getting a job

定年退職

ていねんたいしょく

(compulsory) retirement (e.g. on reaching the age of 60), mandatory retirement, reaching retirement age

親しく

したしく

intimately, personally, in person

仮定

かてい

assumption, supposition, hypothesis, assumption

持っていく

もっていく もってゆく

to take, to carry (something) away, to bear