彼の行けない理由がなおはっきりしない。

he; him; his; boyfriend

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

to be good (at); to go well; to look (taste, etc.) good

reason; pretext; motive

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

furthermore; still; yet; more; still more; in addition; greater; further

clearly; plainly; distinctly; to be clear; to be definite; to be certain; to be exact; to become clear; to clear up

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