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
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- 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
- 16 April 2024 - 18:04
ใๆๆดใใใฆใใใotearaiWordpopular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- toilet, restroom, lavatory, bathroom
ๅฎถใใieWordpopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- house, residence, dwelling
- family, household
- lineage, family name
Wordpopular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- store, shop, establishment, restaurant
Wordpopular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone suru verb verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb suffix auxiliary verb
- to do, to carry out, to perform
- to cause to become, to make (into), to turn (into)
- to serve as, to act as, to work as
- to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
- to judge as being, to view as being, to think of as, to treat as, to use as
- to decide on, to choose
- to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.)
- to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
- to be worth, to cost
- to pass (of time), to elapse
- to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B
- to transform A to B, to make A into B, to exchange A for B
- to make use of A for B, to view A as B, to handle A as if it were B
- to feel A about B
- verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")
- creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
- to be just about to, to be just starting to, to try to, to attempt to
Wordpopular polite language copula
- be, is
Wordpopular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb shogi honorific language auxiliary verb
- to become, to get, to grow, to turn, to reach, to attain
- to result in, to turn out, to end up, to prove (to be)
- to consist of, to be composed of, to be made up of
- to be completed, to be realized, to succeed, to be attained, to be accomplished
- to change (into), to turn (into), to transform
- to come (to do), to begin (to do), to grow (to do)
- to come to, to amount to, to add up to, to make
- to play (the part of), to act as
- to be used for, to be useful for, to serve as
- to be promoted
- to do ...
Wordpopular JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be, to exist, to live
- to have
- to be located
- to be equipped with
- to happen, to come about
Wordpopular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone humble language godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb auxiliary verb
- to be (animate), to be, to exist
- to be ...-ing
- to (have the audacity to) do
Wordpopular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- to say, to utter, to declare
- to name, to call
- to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"), to make a noise
Wordpopular search-only kana form rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb usually written using kana alone auxiliary verb colloquial slang
- to go, to move (towards), to head (towards), to leave (for)
- to move through, to travel across, to walk along (e.g. a road)
- to go (well, badly, etc.), to proceed, to turn out, to get along
- to do (in a particular way), to go (with; a choice), to try
- to pass (of time, seasons, etc.), to go by
- to stream, to flow
- to die, to pass away
- to reach (a stage, extent, age, etc.), to get to, to go (so far as ...)
- to reach (of information, instructions, wind, etc.), to arrive
- to continue ..., to go on ..., to (progress) steadily, to gradually ..., to progressively ...
- to have an orgasm, to come, to cum
- to trip, to get high, to have a drug-induced hallucination