List: JLPT Level N5 words
JLPT N5 words: Basic Level
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be shut, to close, to be closed
- to be firm (of a body, face, etc.), to be well-knit
- to be locked
- to tighten, to be tightened
- to become sober, to become tense
popular JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic) adverb noun (suffix)
- a lot, lots, plenty, many, a large number, much, a great deal, a good deal
- enough, sufficient
- enough, too many, too much
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to get cloudy, to cloud over, to become overcast
- to cloud up, to fog up, to mist up, to become dim
- to be gloomy, to be clouded (expression), to be downcast
- to look slightly downward (of a noh mask; indicating sadness, grief, etc.)
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adverb adverb taking the と particle noun noun (generic)
- various, a variety of, all sorts of, many (different)
- variously, in various ways, in many ways
- various things, this and that
popular JLPT N5 food, cooking noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- (hard) candy, toffee
- rice-sugar, sugar made from the starch of rice, potatoes, etc.
- amber, yellowish-brown
popular JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- many, numerous, a lot
- large amount of, large quantity of, a lot, much
- frequent, common
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to take off (clothes, shoes, etc.), to undress
popular search-only kana form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) irregular nu verb intransitive verb
- to die, to pass away
- to lose spirit, to lose vigor, to look dead
- to cease, to stop
popular JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- cheap, inexpensive
- calm, peaceful, quiet
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb auxiliary verb
- to take (a resource, e.g. time or money)
- to hang
- to come into view, to arrive
- to come under (a contract, a tax)
- to start (engines, motors)
- to attend, to deal with, to handle
- to have started to, to be on the verge of
- to overlap (e.g. information in a manual), to cover
- to (come) at
- to be fastened
- to be covered (e.g. with dust, a table-cloth, etc.)
- to be caught in
- to get a call
- to depend on
- to begin (a task), to set about (doing), to get down to