10000 Japanese Idioms for Pc

1. This dictionary offers the most comprehensive compilation and English translation of those idiomatic expressions that so enrich the Japanese language but fail to find their way into conventional dictionaries.

2. What student of Japanese has not grappled with the amazing diversity and tantalizingly elusive nuances of its idioms? One certainly would not want to confuse, for example, 気が回る (to be considerate) with 気を回す (to be suspicious).

3. It contains 10,000 idiomatic phrases under some 2,200 main entries, including several thousands of idioms never presented and explained in English before.

4. Indeed, even a single idiom can have a bewildering number of meanings depending on context: 手を入れる, for instance, can mean tidying up (e.g. a room), sounding someone out, or staging a raid.

5. Based on “A Dictionary of Japanese Idioms” by William de Lange, Floating World Editions.

6. Multiple sample phrases are given for each entry, and furigana (as well as audio) allows even beginning students to correctly pronounce and use the expressions immediately.

7. Speak like a native with A Dictionary of Japanese Idioms.

8. And it would be useful to know whether your boss is 腹が立つ (angry) or merely 気が立つ (upset).

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