List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be late, to be delayed, to fall behind schedule, to be overdue
- to fall behind (in a race, one's studies, etc.), to lag behind, to be behind (the times)
- to be bereaved of, to be preceded by (someone) in death
- to be slow (of a clock or watch)
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- high-pressure selling, aggressive peddling, the hard sell, high-pressure salesman
- forcing on someone (e.g. kindness)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to recommend (someone to do), to advise, to encourage, to urge
- to recommend (a book, someone for a position, etc.), to suggest
- to offer (a drink, cigarette, seat, etc.)
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to be careful, to be discreet
- to do in moderation, to refrain (from overdoing), to abstain
- to be reverent
- to be purified, to be chaste
popular JLPT N1 counter sumo
- counter for thin, flat objects (e.g. sheets of paper, plates, coins)
- counter for portions of gyลza or soba
- counter for ranks
- counter for wrestlers of a particular rank
- counter for fields or rice paddies
- counter for palanquin bearers
popular noun noun (generic) adverb
- tomorrow morning
popular noun noun (generic)
- Western-style room
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to melt into, to dissolve into, to merge into
- to blend into (surroundings), to fit in, to adapt to, to integrate
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to leave, to depart, to take one's leave
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to stream, to flow (liquid, time, etc.), to run (ink)
- to be washed away, to be carried
- to drift, to float (e.g. clouds), to wander, to stray
- to sweep (e.g. rumour, fire), to spread, to circulate
- to be heard (e.g. music), to be played
- to lapse (e.g. into indolence, despair)
- to pass, to elapse, to be transmitted
- to be called off, to be forfeited
- to disappear, to be removed