List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb
- always, all the time, at all times
- (at) any time, whenever (you like)
popular irregular okurigana noun noun (generic)
- abandoned child, foundling
popular noun noun (generic)
- fierce god
popular noun noun (generic)
- gas station, petrol station, filling station, service station, fuel depot
popular rarely used kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to intimidate, to frighten, to scare
- to threaten (e.g. peace), to jeopardize, to endanger, to imperil
popular obsolete reading JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to incline toward, to slant, to lurch, to heel over, to be disposed to, to trend toward, to be prone to
- to go down (sun, moon), to sink
- to decline, to wane, to ebb, to fall away
- to tend (towards), to be inclined (to), to come around to (opinion, etc.)
popular Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to tilt (esp. head), to lean, to incline, to slant
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- dead end, blind alley, no through road (i.e. on signage), cul-de-sac
- end, end of the road, end point, as far as one can go
popular search-only kana form rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb usually written using kana alone auxiliary verb colloquial slang
- to go, to move (towards), to head (towards), to leave (for)
- to move through, to travel across, to walk along (e.g. a road)
- to go (well, badly, etc.), to proceed, to turn out, to get along
- to do (in a particular way), to go (with; a choice), to try
- to pass (of time, seasons, etc.), to go by
- to stream, to flow
- to die, to pass away
- to reach (a stage, extent, age, etc.), to get to, to go (so far as ...)
- to reach (of information, instructions, wind, etc.), to arrive
- to continue ..., to go on ..., to (progress) steadily, to gradually ..., to progressively ...
- to have an orgasm, to come, to cum
- to trip, to get high, to have a drug-induced hallucination
popular ใ adjective adjective (generic)
- aromatic (roasted beans, roasted tea, etc.), fragrant (e.g. burning wood), pleasant-smelling, savory-smelling (e.g. barbecued meat), savoury, appetizing