enthusiasm, passion

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

pour into, fill / sprinkle on, water something / concentrate effort, focus energy / for rain or snow to fall

pour into something / serve food, dish out food, fill a container with food

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

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

talk, speak / word, language, term / Short for 物語 (monogatari): story, tale, narrative

a piece of research, a study, investigation

to research, to study