List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to offer, to sacrifice, to dedicate
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to compete, to contend, to vie, to contest
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to bend, to crook, to bow, to curve, to curl
- to lean, to tilt, to incline, to slant
- to bend (the truth), to distort, to twist, to pervert
- to yield (a point), to depart (from a principle), to ignore (what one really thinks)
- to pawn
popular noun noun (generic) な adjective adjective (generic)
- emptiness, hollowness, vacancy, void
- inanity, pointlessness, meaninglessness
popular noun noun (generic)
- memento (esp. of a deceased person), keepsake, heirloom, remembrance, souvenir
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb な adjective adjective (generic)
- thrift, economy, frugality
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to show off, to flaunt
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb auxiliary verb
- to show, to display
- to make (something or someone) look ..., to present an appearance of ...
- to make (something) worth watching, to be entertaining
- to have (something) looked at (by a specialist), to have (an antique, etc.) appraised
- to have (an injury, person, etc.) looked at (by a doctor), to take (someone) to a doctor
- to make a show of (doing), to do in a conspicuous manner, to do in view of others
- to resolve to do, to do at any cost, to show others that one will ...
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 い adjective adjective (generic)
- unsightly, ugly, unseemly, indecent, deplorable, disgraceful, shameful
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb psychology
- hint, suggestion, clue, implication
- suggestion