List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to take (trouble), to attend (to business), to command (army)
popular JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb Kansai-ben dated term suffix
- to repair, to mend, to fix, to correct (a mistake, bad habit, etc.), to put right, to restore, to straighten (e.g. a tie), to tidy up (one's hair, make-up, etc.), to revive (one's spirits)
- to change, to alter, to convert, to translate
- to put back, to put away
- to cure, to heal
- to move up, to promote
- to do over again, to redo
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to imitate, to follow, to copy, to emulate
popular irregular okurigana JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to take on, to undertake, to accept, to take charge of, to assume responsibility for
- to take over, to inherit
- to guarantee, to vouch for
- to contract (a disease)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- confession
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- overflowing, flood, inundation, deluge
- oversupply, plethora, abundance (esp. of something undesirable)
popular JLPT N2 adverb
- comparatively, relatively
popular JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to disappear into, to be lost in, to slip into, to get mixed in among
- to do something under the cover of (confusion, etc.)
- to be almost indistinguishable, to be confusingly similar
- to be diverted from (negative emotions, etc.), to forget about
- to be distracted by, to be too absorbed in
popular rarely used kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to turn over
- to change (one's mind), to reverse (one's decision), to take back (one's words), to retract (one's testimony, confession, etc.)
- to fly (a flag), to let (a skirt, cape, etc.) flap in the wind, to let flutter
popular obsolete reading JLPT N2 grammar noun noun (generic)
- noun