List: linguistics
Terms used in the study of the languages.
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) linguistics
- voice
- singing (of a bird), chirping (of an insect), hoot
- voice, opinion (as expressed in words), view, wish, attitude, will
- sound
- sense (of something's arrival), feeling
- voice, voiced sound
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã transitive verb linguistics
- rebuilding, reconstruction, rehabilitation
- protoform reconstruction
popular JLPT N3 noun taking the genitive case particle ãŪ adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) abbreviation linguistics
- automatic
- intransitive verb
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) linguistics
- form, shape, figure
- morph
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) linguistics
- work, labor, labour
- achievement, performance, ability, talent
- salary, income, earnings
- action, activity, workings, function, operation, movement, motion
- conjugation, inflection
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã intransitive verb linguistics
- talk, conversation, dialogue
- informal expression of opinion, off-the-cuff remarks, comment
- discourse
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) linguistics
- charge, duty, person in charge, official, clerk
- connection, linking
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) linguistics computing
- section (i.e. of text), sentence, passage, paragraph
- phrase
- verse (of 5 or 7 mora in Japanese poetry; of 4, 5, or 7 characters in Chinese poetry)
- haiku, first 17 morae of a renga, etc.
- maxim, saying, idiom, expression
- clause (e.g. in a database query language)
popular noun noun (generic) linguistics
- first words said (e.g. when meeting someone), first thing out of one's mouth
- first speech, inaugural address
- first tone (in Chinese), level tone
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) linguistics
- sign, mark, marker, beacon
- marker