List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to go under, to pass under, to go through, to pass through
- to dive (into or under the water)
- to evade, to get around, to slip past
- to survive, to surmount
popular yojijukugo noun noun (generic)
- egoism, egotism, selfishness
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã transitive verb intransitive verb chemistry
- bridge-building, bridge construction
- bridge
- bridging (e.g. the gap between theory and practice)
- cross-linking
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to build a market for, to promote (a product), to sell, to become well known
- to promote oneself, to sell oneself
- to sell heavily
popular JLPT N1 mathematics noun noun (generic)
- denominator
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to pollute, to contaminate, to soil, to make dirty, to stain
- to disgrace, to dishonour, to dishonor, to defile
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã intransitive verb
- arguing back and forth, bandying words, verbal tug-of-war
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ㎠adjective (generic) adverb
- some, any, (a) little, of some kind, of some sort
- please
- anyway, anyhow, at any rate, after all
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- cough, coughing, tussis
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to find a clear solution, to come to a clean decision, to give a clear explanation, to reason out, to conclude, to be pragmatic, to be practical
- to divide exactly (without remainder), to divide evenly