List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- old type, old style
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) Buddhism な adjective adjective (generic)
- idle complaint, grumble
- moha (ignorance, folly)
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- rest, relaxation
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb usually written using kana alone go (game)
- to succeed (a person, to a position, etc.), to inherit, to take over, to follow
- to patch (clothes), to mend, to repair
- to add (e.g. charcoal to the fire), to replenish with, to feed with, to follow up with (e.g. remarks), to gather (one's breath)
- to connect (stones)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to go out to meet, to receive, to welcome, to greet, to salute, to hail
- to call for, to summon, to invite
- to accept (e.g. as a member of a group or family), to take (e.g. a wife)
- to reach (a certain time, a point in one's life, etc.), to enter (a new phase, new era, etc.), to approach (e.g. death)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) slang
- chimney, smokestack, funnel (of a ship), stovepipe
- carrying a passenger without turning on the taximeter
popular noun noun (generic)
- pedestrian crossing, crosswalk
popular irregular okurigana search-only kanji form JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb usually written using kana alone go (game)
- to come down, to go down, to fall, to drop, to sink, to get lower
- to hang, to dangle
- to move back, to step back, to withdraw, to retire
- to deteriorate, to fall off, to be downgraded
- to get closer to the present day
- to play a sagari, to extend downwards
popular JLPT N2 adverb
- in any case, at any rate, anyhow, anyway, as you know, for you see, particularly
- because, since, for, after all
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to add, to add up, to sum up, to append, to annex
- to increase, to gather (e.g. speed), to pick up
- to include, to count in, to let join
- to inflict (damage), to deal, to give