distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

work; labor / achievement; ability; performance; talent / salary; earnings; income

work done for free, unpaid work, uncompensated work / work done in vain, work with no favorable end result

to work for free, to work without pay or other compensation / to work in vain, to work with no favorable end result

(archaic, grammar) any word that declines or conjugates / (archaic, grammar) more specifically, a verb

just as in the old days, just as it used to be

(archaic, colloquial) a nickname of Ariwara no Narihira, Heian-period waka poet

(archaic) used in the beginning of narratives or story literature: once upon a time, long ago

everything