in one's thinking; what one thinks; one thinks that...

in order to / for the sake of; purpose; objective; aim / cause; reason; circumstance

therefore; for that reason

Kyūjitai form of 以為らく

oneself / first-person pronoun: I, me (often shows the speaker's lower position in a hierarchy than the addressee) / (Kansai) you

first, number one / game, round

most, -est, -most

(Kagoshima, dialect) most / (Kagoshima, dialect) first

a (single) pair, couple, brace (male-female pair of animals) / (gagaku, bugaku, dance) a style of performance consisting of pairs of left and right dances

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend