"M-N" Japanese Words
- makai~
- demon world (YYH concept)
- Makai no Ojigisou~
- Demon World Mimosa
- makenai~
- Don't lose ( A sort of encouragement, like "ganbatte")
- makkuro(na)~
- jet black
- masaka~
- it can't be .../no kidding!/you don't say!/impossible!/could it be?
- matte~
- wait (you could put it as "Chotto matte" - which is "Hey, wait!")
- matta ne/matta na~
- see you around/see you later
- meijin~
- master
- meiyo~
- honor
- midori~
- green
- miko~
- priestess/shrine maiden
[this is from Fushigi Yuugi! (yet again) Miaka is Suzaku no Miko, the Priestess/Shrine Maiden of Suzaku, the phoenix god.]
- minna/minna-san/minna-sama~
- everyone (Adding the "-san" or "-sama" thing is just like when you add it to a name: it makes the phrase more formal. :P)
- mizu~
- water
- moshi-moshi~
- hello (on phone) [other hello fashions: (shouting at door)~ Gomen kudasai]
- nan de mo~
- whatever
- nani (sometimes written as nanni; same thing)/nanda~
- what? [nan (before t, d, n); nan no…, nani-… (before any sound); (which) dono…; (in what way) do]/ what was that?
- nani shugure~
- What the (hell) was that for?!/What'cha do that for?!
- nani ten no~
- What did you say?
- nani-go~
- what language
- naninani~
- what's-it(s-name)
- naze/naze da~
- Why?
- nazo~
- riddle; mystery
- ne~
- isn't that so?/right? (at the end of a sentence); hey (at the beginning of a sentence)
- nekkuresu~
- necklace
- neko~
- cat
- nibuunoichi~
- half; one half; one of two
- nigiyaka~
- animated
- niji~
- rainbow
- ningen~
- human
- Ningenkai~
- Human World (YYH concept)
- nire~
- yew (tree) {^_^; cool, eh Psycho?}
- no~
- makes something possesive (like the 's of the English language.)
- ... no tame ni~
- "For" - in place of the elipse (the "..."), substitute a name or a thing. (The opening theme of Fushigi Yuugi is "Itooshi Hito no Tame Ni" - which translates to "For my Sweetheart"/"For my Beloved"/"For the One I Love", etc. [if you couldn't tell, a lot of definations were found from White Cat's site ~IB-chan]