List: JLPT Level N3 words
JLPT N3 words: Intermediate Level
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb
- quite, entirely, completely, at all
- as if, as though, just like
popular JLPT N3 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- happy, glad, pleased, delighted, overjoyed
- joyful, delightful, gratifying, pleasant
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to shine, to sparkle, to twinkle, to glitter, to glisten
- to light up (with happiness, hope, etc.), to beam, to gleam, to glow
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone honorific language ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- good, OK, all right, fine, very well, will do, may, can
popular ateji rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone expression adverb
- well, properly, suitably
- best regards, please remember me, please treat me favorably (favourably), please take care of, please do
- just like ..., as though one were ...
- by all means, of course
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb auxiliary verb
- to stuff into, to jam, to cram, to pack, to fill, to plug, to stop up
- to shorten, to move closer together
- to reduce (spending), to conserve
- to focus intently on, to strain oneself to do
- to go through thoroughly, to work out (details), to bring to a conclusion, to wind up
- to be on duty, to be stationed
- to corner (esp. an opponent's king in shogi), to trap, to checkmate
- to cut off (one's finger as an act of apology), to catch (one's finger in a door, etc.)
- to do non-stop, to do continuously, to keep doing (without a break)
- to do completely, to do thoroughly
- to force someone into a difficult situation by ...
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb polite language
- to want, to wish for
- to request, to demand, to require, to ask for
- to seek, to search for, to look for, to pursue (pleasure), to hunt (a job), to find (a solution)
- to purchase, to buy
popular JLPT N3 prefix noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- old, former, ex-
- the old, old things, old customs
- old times, bygone days
- Japan's old (lunisolar) calendar
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adverb
- a little, a few, small, slight, trifling, meagre, meager, narrow (margin)
- only, just, merely, no more than
popular JLPT N3 adverb noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) dated term
- lately, recently, nowadays
- terribly, awfully, extremely