List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- serviceman, servicewoman, soldier, member of the armed forces, military personnel
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- older brother, elder brother
- brother-in-law (spouse's older brother or older sister's husband)
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) familiar language male term
- siblings, brothers and sisters
- brothers
- siblings-in-law, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law
- mate, friend
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) rare term
- type, style, model, pattern
- mold, mould, model, pattern, template, impression
- kata (set sequence of positions and movements in martial arts), style (in kabuki, noh, etc.), form
- convention, tradition, (standard) form, formula, usage
- (set) size, inches (in sizes of displays, disks, image sensors, etc.)
- (taxonomical) form
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) philosophy mathematics
- form (as opposed to substance)
- format, form, style, manner
- formality, form
- mode, form
- form (bilinear, quadratic, etc.)
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb medicine
- formation, molding, making (up), taking form, giving form to
- repair (e.g. with plastic surgery), replacement, -plasty
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- series, sequence, system, succession
- keiretsu (group), conglomeration of businesses linked by cross-shareholdings
- affiliated, subsidiary
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ astronomy
- passage (of time), elapsing, lapse
- progress, development, course (of events)
- transit
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- police officer, policeman, constable
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- public entertainment, performing arts
- accomplishments, attainments