お父さんがよく遅くまで仕事をするので、お母さんが小言をたくさん言う。

father; dad; papa; pa; pop; daddy; dada

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

nicely; properly; well; skillfully; skilfully; frequently; often

slow; late (e.g. "late at night"); too late; dull; stupid

until (a time); till; to; up to; to (a place); as far as; to (an extent); up to; so far as; even; only; merely

work; job; business; occupation; employment; vocation; task; work

indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.

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

that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ....; given that...

mother

scolding; fault-finding

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

to say; to utter; to declare; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise