My words

聞く

きく

to hear, to listen (e.g. to music), to ask, to enquire, to query, to learn of, to hear about, to follow (advice), to comply with, to smell (esp. incense), to sample fragrance

飲む

のむ

to drink, to gulp, to swallow, to take (medicine), to smoke (tobacco), to engulf, to overwhelm, to keep down, to suppress, to accept (e.g. demand, condition), to make light of, to conceal

話す

はなす

to talk, to speak, to converse, to chat, to tell, to explain, to narrate, to mention, to describe, to discuss, to speak (a language)

読む

よむ

to read, to count, to guess, to predict, to read (someone's thoughts), to see (e.g. into someone's heart), to divine

起きる

おきる

to get up, to rise, to wake up, to be awake, to stay awake, to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents), to happen, to take place

食べる

たべる

to eat, to live on (e.g. a salary), to live off, to subsist on

寝る

ねる

to lie down, to go to bed, to lie in bed, to sleep (lying down), to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse), to lie idle

見る

みる

to see, to look, to watch, to view, to observe, to look over, to look on, to assess, to examine, to judge, to look after, to keep an eye on, to take care of, to view (e.g. flowers, movie), to try, to try out, to see that..., to find that...

来る

くる きたる

next (e.g. "next April"), forthcoming, coming, to come, to arrive, to be due to

為る

する

to do, to cause to become, to make (into), to turn (into), to serve as, to act as, to work as, to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.), to judge as being, to view as being, to think of as, to treat as, to use as, to decide on, to choose, to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.), to be (in a state, condition, etc.), to be worth, to cost, to pass (of time), to elapse, verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs"), creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go"), to be just about to, to be just starting to, to try to, to attempt to

勉強する

Benkyō suru

study

早い

はやい

fast, quick, hasty, brisk, early (in the day, etc.), premature, (too) soon, not yet, (too) early, easy, simple, quick

余り

あまり あんまり

remainder, rest, balance, remains, scraps, residue, remnant, not very (with negative sentence), not much, surplus, excess, fullness, too much, overjoyed, overwhelmed, more than, over, remainder

全然

ぜんぜん

not at all (with neg. verb), wholly, entirely, completely

大抵

たいてい

mostly, ordinarily, usually, generally, probably, most, almost all, ordinary, proper, appropriate, moderate

時々

ときどき

sometimes, at times

良く

よく

nicely, properly, well, skillfully, frequently, often