List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular sensitive noun noun (generic) derogatory
- farmer, peasant, farm laborer, farmhand
- farming
- country bumpkin, yokel
- the common people
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun noun (generic)
- weak (constitution), sickly, feeble, in poor health
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- poor, meagre, meager, feeble, scanty, shabby, insubstantial
popular noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic) adverb
- constant, persistent, unremitting, ceaseless
- indecisiveness
- usual, normal, everyday, habitual, ordinary
popular obsolete kanji search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- extramarital sex, affair, fooling around
- infidelity, wantonness, unfaithfulness, inconstancy, fickleness, caprice
popular irregular okurigana JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- storage room, storeroom, lumber room
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to close (e.g. book, eyes, meeting, etc.), to shut
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- taking advantage of (an opportunity), jumping on the bandwagon
- taking passage (in), getting a lift, getting a ride
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb transitive verb
- retaining warmth, keeping heat in, heat insulation
popular search-only kana form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) go (game) interjection
- no good, not serving its purpose, useless, broken
- hopeless, wasted, in vain, purposeless
- cannot, must not, not allowed
- neutral point, intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game
- no!, stop!