List: JLPT Level N3 words
JLPT N3 words: Intermediate Level
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone interjection noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) archaic rare term adverb
- by no means, never!, well, I never!, you don't say!, certainly (not)
- something unexpected, emergency
- currently, for the time being, presently, for now
- indeed, really, truly, unexpectedly
popular search-only kana form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone い adjective adjective (generic)
- painful, bitter, heart-breaking, difficult (emotionally)
- tough, difficult, hard (usu. of situations)
- cruel, harsh, cold
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to advance, to move forward, to put (a clock, watch) forward
- to carry forward (plans, work, etc.), to proceed with, to make progress in, to further, to advance, to hasten, to speed up
- to raise, to elevate, to promote, to develop, to stimulate (e.g. one's appetite)
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to shiver, to shake, to quake, to tremble, to quaver, to quiver
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb
- finally, in the end, at last
- in the end, after all, never (happened)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) grammar noun (suffix)
- nature (of a person)
- sex, gender
- sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.)
- gender
- -ty, -ity, -ness, -cy
popular JLPT N3 noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) colloquial abbreviation prefix archaic
- raw, uncooked, fresh
- natural, as it is, unedited, unprocessed
- unprotected (sex), raw, bareback
- live (i.e. not recorded)
- inexperienced, unpolished, green, crude
- impudence, sauciness
- unpasteurized beer, draft beer, draught beer
- blank (e.g. disk), unused
- just a little, somehow, vaguely, partially, somewhat, half-, semi-
- insufficient, incomplete, half-baked, half-hearted, perfunctory
- cash
- tipsiness
popular ateji search-only kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic) adverb noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- unfortunately, sorry, but ...
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) counter
- piece, slice, strip, scrap
- cloth
- sharpness
- agility
- counter for scraps, pieces, etc.
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb colloquial usually written using kana alone auxiliary verb
- to break, to snap, to be cut, to split, to crack
- to be injured
- to wear out, to be worn out
- to break, to burst, to collapse
- to wear off, to stop working, to go dead
- to expire (time limit, etc.), to run out, to become due
- to run out (of stock, etc.), to be exhausted, to be used up, to be sold out, to be out of
- to be broken off (e.g. of a relationship), to break up, to have severed ties, to be cut off, to be disconnected
- to cut well, to be sharp
- to be sharp-minded, to be keen, to be shrewd, to be quick-witted, to be able
- to be short of, to drop under (a certain figure), to beat (e.g. a record time)
- to dry off
- to curve, to veer
- to shuffle (cards)
- to get angry, to snap, to blow one's top, to lose one's temper, to flip
- to be able to do completely