List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic)
- urgent business
popular irregular kanji usage adverb obsolete term な adjective adjective (generic)
- hurriedly, in a hurry, hastily, in haste
- sudden, abrupt
popular JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb polite language
- to want, to wish for
- to request, to demand, to require, to ask for
- to seek, to search for, to look for, to pursue (pleasure), to hunt (a job), to find (a solution)
- to purchase, to buy
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to draw (water), to scoop up, to dip up, to pump out
- to understand (someone's feelings, etc.), to grasp, to surmise, to take into consideration
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to draw (water), to ladle, to dip up, to scoop up, to pump
- to pour (into a cup), to drink (together)
- to consider (feelings, the situation, etc.), to sympathize with, to intuit, to understand
- to draw upon, to inherit
popular JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb transitive verb
- to cry, to shed tears, to weep, to sob
- to suffer (from), to be troubled (by), to face hardship
- to accept (an unreasonable request, loss, etc.), to do reluctantly, to make sacrifices
- to be not worth the name, to suffer (of a reputation), to be spoiled, to be put to shame
- to lament, to bemoan, to bewail
popular JLPT N3 prefix noun noun (generic) abbreviation
- old, former, ex-
- the old, old things, old customs
- old times, bygone days
- Japan's old (lunisolar) calendar
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- macroscopic
- comprehensive, all-including, broad
popular obsolete reading godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb auxiliary verb
- to fish
- to look for, to search for, to hunt for, to scavenge, to scrounge, to look through, to rummage through
- to go on a spree (spending, reading, etc.), to binge
popular humble language usually written using kana alone suffix derogatory
- first-person plural (or singular)
- second or third person plural (implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)