[まえしりえ, maeshirie] (n) (1) front and rear; front and back; before and behind; (2) before and after; (3) order; context; (4) consequences; (n, vs) (5) inversion; reversion; getting out of order; (6) co-occurring; (n-suf, n) (7) around; about; approximately; nearly; (P) #1822
[ちかく, chikaku] (n-adv, n) (1) (See 近い) near; neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity; (n-suf) (2) nearly (i.e. "it took nearly one year"); close to; (adv) (3) shortly; soon; (P) #1839
[ほとんど, hotondo] (n-adv, n-t) (uk) mostly; nearly; practically; well-nigh; almost invariably; all but; just about; almost; (P) #6700
[ottsukattsu] (adj-no) much the same; nearly equal
[すんでのところで, sundenotokorode] (exp) (uk) almost; very nearly
[souninatta] (exp) almost (did); nearly (did)
[もうすこしで, mousukoshide] (exp) almost; nearly; close to
[もうすこしのところで, mousukoshinotokorode] (exp) almost; nearly; close to
[あやうく, ayauku] (adv) (1) (See 危うい) barely; narrowly; (2) almost; nearly; (P)
[あぶなく, abunaku] (adv) nearly; almost; on the point of (doing)
[すんでのこと;すってのこと, sundenokoto ; suttenokoto] (adv) almost; very nearly
[はぐきおん;しけいおん, hagukion ; shikeion] (n) (See 歯茎) alveolar consonant; sound (e.g. n, t, d) where the tongue touches (or nearly touches) the ridge behind your front top teeth
[こいちじかん, koichijikan] (n) nearly one hour
[じょうきこう, joukikou] (n) Actinopterygii (class of the ray-finned fishes comprising nearly 95% of the 25, 000 species of fish)
[せんけいどくりつ, senkeidokuritsu] (adj-na) { comp } linearly independent (e.g. equations)
[あしかけ, ashikake] (n) (1) leg trip (in sumo, judo, etc.); (2) foothold; pedal; (n-adv) (3) (See 丸・まる・2) nearly (used to estimate a period of time by rounding up incomplete units)
[おぼれる, oboreru] (v1, vi) (1) (uk) to drown; to nearly drown; to sink below the surface (of water); (2) to indulge in; to lose one's head over something; to wallow in; (P)
[はっくぶ, hakkubu] (n) nearly; almost
[あれこれ(P);かれこれ, arekore (P); karekore] (adv, pn) (1) (uk) one thing or another; this and that; this or that; (2) (かれこれ only) just on; nearly; roughly; almost; round about; (P)
[やぎりのわたし, yagirinowatashi] (n) Yagiri No Watashi (ferry that has been taking passengers across the Edo river for nearly 400 years)
[やがて, yagate] (adv) (1) (uk) before long; soon; (2) (uk) almost; nearly; (3) (uk) finally; in the end; eventually; (P)