たくさんのツバメがまもなく南からやってくる。

a lot; lots; plenty; many; a large number; much; a great deal; a good deal; enough; sufficient; enough; too many; too much

indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question

swallow (bird of the Hirundinidae family); martin; barn swallow (Hirundo rustica); younger man involved with an older woman

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

soon; before long; in a short time; lacking time to ...; without time to ...

south

from (e.g. time, place, numerical quantity); since; from (originator); by; because; since; out of (constituent, part); through (e.g. window, vestibule); after; since

to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)