List: Core Japanese words
This is arguably the list of the most important words that any beginner student should begin learning. This list is inspired from the content in https://www.fluentin3months.com/core-japanese-words/
List: Core Japanese words
- Description
- This is arguably the list of the most important words that any beginner student should begin learning. This list is inspired from the content in https://www.fluentin3months.com/core-japanese-words/
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fr3nd- Number of entries
- 117
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- Words
- Creation date
- 7 Jun 2022, 7:34 p.m.
- Last updated
- 18 Nov 2025, 7:11 p.m.
Wordpopular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone pre-noun adjectival adjective (generic)
- this
- last (couple of years, etc.), these, past, this
- you (as in "you liar")
Wordpopular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone pre-noun adjectival adjective (generic) interjection
- that, the
- part (as in "part two")
- um ..., er ..., uh ...
Wordpopular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone pre-noun adjectival adjective (generic)
- that, those, the
Wordpopular JLPT N5 pronoun
- I, me
Wordpopular JLPT N4 male term pronoun colloquial archaic noun noun (generic)
- I, me
- you
- manservant
Wordpopular JLPT N4 pronoun noun noun (generic)
- he, him
- boyfriend
Wordpopular JLPT N4 pronoun noun noun (generic)
- she, her
- girlfriend
Wordpopular search-only kanji form pronoun
- we, us
Wordpopular JLPT N3 pronoun
- they, them
Wordpopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- year
- age, years
- past one's prime, old age