Sakata, Yamagata

(formal) friend

city

hometown, the place one comes from / the school from which one graduated / the group or organization from which one comes

(chiefly women's speech) first person singular pronoun: I, me

中田: a surname

the vicinity of the roots of a tree

(polite) that person

(chiefly in the negative) as long as one has been alive

a market, a marketplace / a place where a lot of people gather / (less commonly) a town, a city