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
- 24 April 2024 - 01:11
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 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 search-only kanji form JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to learn, to study, to take lessons in
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 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 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 JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- many, numerous, a lot
- large amount of, large quantity of, a lot, much
- frequent, common
Wordpopular JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) ใช adjective noun noun (generic) adverb noun (suffix)
- a lot, lots, plenty, many, a large number, much, a great deal, a good deal
- enough, sufficient
- enough, too many, too much
Wordpopular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 adverb
- a little, a bit, a small amount, a few, some, slightly, somewhat
- a little while, a short time, a moment, a minute
- a little way, a short distance
Wordpopular JLPT N5 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- far, distant, far away, a long way off, in the distance
- distant (past), remote (in time), remote, far-removed (in time)
- distant (relationship or kinship), having little to do (with someone)
- far (from something else in quality, degree, etc.), not similar, way off
- hard (of hearing)
- nearsighted