to be commonplace

past tense of ありふれる (arifureru) [ichidan]

opinion / advice, a suggestion

to advise, to suggest / to admonish

modern times, variously described as after the 19th century, after World War I, or after World War II, until the present

society (group of people sharing culture) / a class, a world of a certain group

suggestion box

social science

modern language / (especially in reference to Japanese) modern Japanese; Japanese in its current form, spoken since the Meiji era and based on the Tokyo dialect

"Modern kana usage", the method of using kana to write Japanese that has been used after the 1946 (post-war) Japanese national language reform. Unlike its predecessor, it is almost entirely phonetic, reflecting modern language with little ambiguity.