List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- lunch, midday meal
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to challenge to (a fight, game, etc.), to throw down the gauntlet, to contend for
- to tackle (e.g. a problem), to attempt, to go after (a prize, record, etc.)
- to pressure (someone) for sex, to make advances to
popular derogatory noun noun (generic)
- traitor (to one's country), quisling
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- semicircle, hemicycle, half globe
- to go halfway round (e.g. the earth)
popular Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to get tired out, to be exhausted
popular noun noun (generic)
- virtue, charm, merit, good point
popular honorific language noun noun (generic)
- daughter of a person of high rank (esp. eldest daughter)
popular noun noun (generic)
- pain of sickness
popular noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic) humble language pronoun formal or literary term archaic
- unworthy (of one's father, teacher, etc.)
- I, me
- incompetent, unskilled, inexperienced, foolish
- unfortunate, unlucky
popular noun noun (generic) slang derogatory
- loser, failure, underdog, unsuccessful person, non-achiever, loser dog
- unmarried and childless older woman