List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- journey, course, distance, march, flight, drive, leg (of a journey, relay race, etc.)
- itinerary
- stroke (of a piston), throw (of a switch)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- collecting, gathering
popular な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- quick, prompt, alert, smart, clever, astute, shrewd, quick-witted
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- rising (from one's bed), getting up, getting out of bed
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to starve, to be famished, to be hungry
- to be starved of (e.g. love), to be thirsty for (e.g. knowledge), to be hungry for
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
- 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)
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)