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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- Creation date
- 7 June 2022 - 19:34
- Last updated
- 15 May 2024 - 22:51
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 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 polite language copula
- be, is
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 rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- store, shop, establishment, restaurant
Wordpopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- house, residence, dwelling
- family, household
- lineage, family name
Wordpopular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- toilet, restroom, lavatory, bathroom
Wordpopular JLPT N5 abbreviation noun noun (generic)
- toilet, restroom, bathroom, lavatory
- going to the toilet, relieving oneself
Wordpopular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- one's origin (e.g. city, country, parentage, school)
Wordpopular JLPT N3 adverb noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- other (esp. people and abstract matters)