List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone い adjective adjective (generic)
- large number, innumerable, great many, immense, vast, abundant
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to treat (someone) to (something), to give (someone) a treat, to buy (someone a meal, drink, etc.)
- to be extravagant, to live in luxury
popular JLPT N1 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- euphemistic, circumlocutory, periphrastic, roundabout, indirect
popular な adjective adjective (generic)
- supple, flexible, elastic
- graceful, elegant, refined
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- broom
popular usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to loiter, to putter, to prowl, to wander about, to roam about, to knock around
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to make, to manufacture, to fabricate
- to build, to construct
- to prepare, to get ready, to make (in advance)
- to dress (oneself in), to dress up (in), to put on (one's makeup, a dress, etc.), to adorn (oneself in)
- to raise money (for), to gather (a sum), to save up, to incur (a debt)
- to have (a child, partner, lover, etc.), to make (a friend), to start (an affair)
- to make up (e.g. an excuse), to fabricate (a story), to invent, to concoct
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to rub, to crumple
- to massage
- to argue, to have a heated discussion
- to train, to coach
- to jostle, to crowd, to shake, to rock
- to have various experiences (out in the world)
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to disagree, to dispute, to fight (over)
popular noun noun (generic)
- right-hand radical of a character