List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- (relative) difficulty
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) honorific language
- to cross over (e.g. mountain), to go across
- to get over (e.g. hardship)
- to pass time (e.g. a winter)
- to surpass, to be better than, to exceed
- to move house
- to go, to come
popular JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to act (a part), to play (a role)
- to perform (a play, etc.), to put on (a production)
- to commit (e.g. a blunder), to disgrace oneself, to do something conspicuously, to make a scene
- to pretend (e.g. to be a good father)
popular noun noun (generic)
- writing horizontally, horizontal writing
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb grammar
- assumption, supposition, hypothesis
- supposition
popular JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone pronoun dated term
- when, at what time, how soon
- normal times, ordinary days
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb auxiliary verb
- to accomplish, to achieve, to carry out, to fulfill, to fulfil, to realize, to execute, to perform, to do
- to do ... completely, to do ... entirely
popular rarely used kanji form suru verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to draw (a line)
- to demarcate, to mark, to divide, to map out
- to plan
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- height above sea level
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb colloquial
- to slide, to glide, to skate, to ski
- to slip, to skid
- to be slippery
- to fail (an examination)
- to lose (a position), to be demoted
- to bomb (when telling a joke), to fall flat