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 June 2022 - 19:34
- Last updated
- 6 May 2024 - 12:09
Wordpopular JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- many, numerous, a lot
- large amount of, large quantity of, a lot, much
- frequent, common
Wordpopular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb baseball
- to return, to come home, to go home, to go back
- to leave (of a guest, customer, etc.)
- to get home, to get to home plate
Wordpopular obsolete kanji JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to drink, to gulp, to swallow, to take (medicine)
- to smoke (tobacco)
- to engulf, to overwhelm
- to keep down, to suppress
- to accept (e.g. demand, condition)
- to make light of, to conceal
Wordpopular irregular kanji usage JLPT N5 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to eat
- to live on (e.g. a salary), to live off, to subsist on
Wordpopular search-only kanji form JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to learn, to study, to take lessons in
Wordpopular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to use (a tool, method, etc.), to make use of, to put to use
- to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.), to employ, to handle, to manage, to manipulate
- to use (time, money, etc.), to spend, to consume
- to use (language), to speak
Wordpopular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to arrive at, to reach
- to sit on, to sit at (e.g. the table)
Wordpopular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to make, to produce, to manufacture, to build, to construct
- to prepare (food), to brew (alcohol)
- to raise, to grow, to cultivate, to train
- to till
- to draw up (a document), to make out, to prepare, to write
- to create (an artistic work, etc.), to compose
- to coin (a phrase), to organize, to organise, to establish, to found
- to have (a child)
- to make up (one's face, etc.)
- to fabricate (an excuse, etc.)
- to give a (false) appearance, to feign (a smile, etc.), to put on a show of emotion
- to form (a line, etc.)
- to set (a record)
- to commit (a sin, etc.)
Wordpopular JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb colloquial usually written using kana alone intransitive verb linguistics
- to receive, to get
- to catch (e.g. a ball)
- to be struck by (wind, waves, sunlight, etc.)
- to sustain (damage), to incur (a loss), to suffer (an injury), to feel (influence)
- to undergo (e.g. surgery), to take (a test), to accept (a challenge)
- to be given (e.g. life, talent)
- to find funny, to find humorous, to be amused (by)
- to follow, to succeed, to be descended from
- to face (south, etc.)
- to be modified by
- to obtain (a pawned item, etc.) by paying a fee
- to be well-received, to become popular, to go down well
Wordpopular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb usually written using kana alone auxiliary verb
- to put, to place
- to leave (behind)
- to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.), to set up
- to appoint (someone to a certain position), to hire, to employ
- to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc.), to bear (in mind, etc.)
- to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool
- to take in (boarders, etc.), to provide lodging in one's house
- to separate spatially or temporally
- to do something in advance
- to leave something in a certain state, to keep something in a certain state