List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) counter sumo
- curtain
- act (in a play)
- falling of the curtain, end (of a scene)
- end, close
- case, occasion, role (to play), part, place
- makuuchi, top division
popular baseball noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- bases loaded
popular JLPT N2 noun (suffix) noun (generic) noun adverb
- less than, under, below
popular noun noun (generic)
- the problem (at issue), the point at issue, problematic issue, problem
popular noun noun (generic)
- (former) Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (now Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- prediction, estimation
popular noun noun (generic)
- (necessary) personnel, required person
popular noun noun (generic)
- user, end-user, consumer, patron, customer, client
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) baseball
- opposite side, bottom, other side, side hidden from view, undersurface, reverse side
- rear, back, behind
- lining, inside
- in the shadows, behind the scenes, offstage, behind (someone's) back
- more (to something than meets the eye), hidden side (e.g. of one's personality), unknown circumstances, different side
- proof
- opposite (of a prediction, common sense, etc.), contrary
- inverse (of a hypothesis, etc.)
- bottom (of an inning), last half (of an inning)
popular noun noun (generic)
- both houses of parliament, both upper and lower house