List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to plant, to grow, to raise
- to insert, to transplant, to implant, to set (type)
- to inoculate (e.g. an infectious agent)
- to instill (idea, value, etc.), to inculcate
popular JLPT N1 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- helpless, forlorn, hopeless, unpromising, lonely, discouraging, disheartening
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- extreme, excessive, terrible, intense, severe, serious, tremendous, heavy (damage)
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb
- exactly, just, precisely, really, truly, surely, certainly, without doubt
- right (when), just (as)
- just (about to), on the point of, on the verge of, on the brink of
- really (ought to), certainly (should), naturally
popular JLPT N2 ใช adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- impertinent, saucy, cheeky, impudent, audacious, cocky, pert, brash
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to condemn, to blame, to criticize, to criticise, to reproach, to accuse
- to urge, to press, to pester
- to torture, to torment, to persecute
- to break in (a horse)
popular JLPT N4 ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- shallow, superficial
- slight (wound), light (sleep), pale (colour), inadequate (knowledge)
- short (time), early, young
popular Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb auxiliary verb
- to harm, to hurt, to injure, to wreck
- to miss one's chance to (do something), to fail to (do what one ought to have done)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to put on weight, to gain weight, to grow fat, to get stout
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- ambush, lying in wait for an ambush