List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone expression adverb
- perhaps, maybe, perchance, by some chance, by any chance
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone adverb
- perhaps, possibly, maybe, by some chance
popular interjection
- hello (e.g. on phone)
- excuse me! (when calling out to someone)
popular JLPT N5 adverb
- (some) more, even more, longer, further
popular usually written using kana alone expression kuru verb verb (generic)
- to come along, to come around, to turn up
- to arrive at the present, to get where one is, to have been doing something (for a period of time)
popular JLPT N1 ă adjective adjective (generic)
- complicated, complex, intricate, confusing, difficult, troublesome
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă transitive verb
- making do, getting by (somehow), managing
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ăă transitive verb
- giving and taking, exchange (of letters), arguing back and forth, (conversational) exchange
popular noun noun (generic)
- way (of doing), manner, method, means
popular interjection
- oh!, ah!, oh dear!, good grief!, dear me!, thank God!