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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- Creation date
- 7 June 2022 - 19:34
- Last updated
- 15 May 2024 - 22:51
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 obsolete kanji irregular okurigana JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) adverb
- good, advantage, benefit, welfare
- sake, purpose, objective, aim
- consequence, result, effect
- affecting, regarding, concerning
Wordpopular JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- small, little, tiny
- slight, below average (in degree, amount, etc.), minor, small
- low (e.g. sound), soft (e.g. voice)
- unimportant, petty, insignificant, trifling, trivial
- young, juvenile
Wordpopular JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- near, close, short (distance)
- close (in time), soon
- close (relationship), friendly, intimate
- closely related
- similar, almost the same, close to, nearly
Wordpopular JLPT N5 abbreviation noun noun (generic)
- subway, metro, underground (railway)
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 N3 noun noun (generic)
- Moon
- month
- moonlight
- (a) moon, natural satellite
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 particle conjunction auxiliary Kansai-ben
- at, in
- at, when
- by, with
- and then, so
- and, then
- let me tell you, don't you know