List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to hang, to suspend, to dangle, to swing, to carry
popular onomatopoeic or mimetic word adverb adverb taking the と particle noun or participle taking the aux. verb する verb (generic) noun (generic)
- trembling (with fear, anger, etc.), shivering (with cold), shaking, quivering
popular onomatopoeic or mimetic word な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の
- completely exhausted, dead tired, knackered
popular interjection
- look!, see!, here!, there!, hey!
popular search-only kana form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) colloquial suffix
- fool, idiot
- dotage, senility, dementia
- touched in the head (from), out of it (from), feeling sluggish (from), not yet up to par (after)
- funny man (of a comedy duo)
popular JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to become dim, to become blurred
popular JLPT N3 onomatopoeic or mimetic word adverb adverb taking the と particle noun or participle taking the aux. verb する verb (generic) noun (generic) noun
- dimly, faintly, indistinctly, vaguely
- absentmindedly, vacantly, carelessly
- idly, aimlessly
- absence of mind, fool, blockhead, dunce
popular onomatopoeic or mimetic word noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) adverb taking the と particle adverb noun or participle taking the aux. verb する noun (generic)
- pleasantly warm, nice and warm
- repeatedly (hitting someone), again and again, over and over
popular onomatopoeic or mimetic word adverb taking the と particle
- vacantly, blankly, absentmindedly
- openmouthed, with one's mouth wide-open, gaping, flabbergasted
- with a whack, with a thump
popular JLPT N3 adverb female term interjection
- just (e.g. "just wait here"), come now, now, now
- tolerably, passably, moderately, reasonably, fairly, rather, somewhat
- well ..., I think ..., it would seem ..., you might say ..., Hmmm, I guess so ...
- oh!, oh dear!, oh, my!, wow!, goodness gracious!, good heavens!