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/
- Visibility
- Public
- Owner
- fr3nd
- Number of entries
- 117
- Contains
- Words
- Creation date
- 7 June 2022 - 19:34
- Last updated
- 24 April 2024 - 01:11
Wordpopular obsolete kanji JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be able (in a position) to do, to be up to the task
- to be ready, to be completed
- to be made, to be built
- to be good at, to be permitted (to do)
- to become intimate, to take up (with someone)
- to grow, to be raised
- to become pregnant
Wordpopular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb usually written using kana alone auxiliary verb
- to see, to look, to watch, to view, to observe
- to examine, to look over, to assess, to check, to judge
- to look after, to attend to, to take care of, to keep an eye on
- to experience, to meet with (misfortune, success, etc.)
- to try ..., to have a go at ..., to give ... a try
- to see (that) ..., to find (that) ...
Wordpopular JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to send (a thing), to dispatch, to despatch, to transmit
- to take or escort (a person somewhere), to see off (a person)
- to bid farewell (to the departed), to bury
- to spend (time), to live one's life
- to pass (down the line)
- to affix okurigana
Wordpopular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb colloquial
- to hold (in one's hand), to take, to carry
- to possess, to have, to own
- to maintain, to keep
- to last, to be durable, to keep, to survive
- to take charge of, to be in charge of
- to hold (meeting, etc.), to have (opportunity, etc.)
- to have "it", to have that special something, to be blessed with good luck
Wordpopular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to wait
- to await, to look forward to, to anticipate
- to depend on, to need
Wordpopular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb usually written using kana alone
- to meet, to encounter, to see
- to have an accident, to have a bad experience
Wordpopular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb archaic
- to call out (to), to call, to invoke
- to summon (a doctor, etc.)
- to invite
- to designate, to name, to brand
- to garner (support, etc.), to gather
- to take as one's wife
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
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
- 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.)