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| 間 | ま | space, room, time, pause | 662 |
| 間違い | まちがい | mistake | |
| まあ | (female) you might say | ||
| マーケット | market | ||
| マイク | mike | ||
| 迷子 | まいご | lost (stray) child | 1952 1312 |
| 任せる | まかせる | to entrust to another, to leave to | 1156 |
| 幕 | まく | curtain, bunting, act (in play) | 1385 |
| 負け | まけ | defeat, loss, losing (a game) | 931 |
| 孫 | まご | grandchild | 1022 |
| 真逆 | まさか | indeed, surely; by no means | 896 |
| 真面目 | まじめ | diligent, serious, honest | |
| 真っ赤 | まっか | deep red, flushed (of face) | |
| 真っ直ぐ | まっすぐ | straight (ahead), direct, upright | |
| 真似 | まね | mimicry, imitation, behavior, pretense | |
| 正に | まさに | correctly, surely | 762-3 |
| 増す | ます | to increase, to grow | 1187 |
| 先ず | まず | first (of all), to start with, about, almost, hardly (with neg. verb) | 730 |
| 貧しい | まずしい | poor, needy | 1302 |
| マスター | proprietor, manager, master (e.g. arts, science) | ||
| 益々 | ますます | increasingly, more and more | 1256 |
| 又 | また | again, and | 2490 |
| 未だ | まだ | yet, still, more, besides | 1055 |
| 街 | まち | (1) town, (2) street, road | 1118 |
| 松 | まつ | pine tree | 1059 |
| 全く | まったく | really, truly, entirely, completely | 788 |
| 祭 | まつり | festival, feast | 902 |
| 学ぶ | まなぶ | to study (in depth), to learn, to take lessons in | 761 |
| 招く | まねく | to beckon, to call; to invite | 1216 |
| ママ | Mama | ||
| 豆 | まめ | beans, peas | 930 |
| 守る | まもる | to protect, to obey, to guard, to abide (by the rules) | 814 |
| 丸 | まる | circle, full (month), perfection, purity, suffix for ship names | 641-2 |
| 丸い | まるい | round, circular, spherical | |
| 丸で | まるで | quite, entirely, completely | |
| 円 | まる | circle, money | 725 |
| 回す | まわす | to turn, to revolve | 695-4 |
| 回り | まわり | circumference, surroundings, circulation | |
| 万一 | まんいち | by some chance, by some possibility, if by any chance, 10E4:1 odds | 637-2 |
| 満足 | まんぞく | satisfaction | 1081 |