List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to sink (e.g. a ship), to submerge
- to lower (e.g. one's body into a chair)
- to floor (an opponent)
popular search-only kanji form godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to pass (a car), to overtake
- to surpass, to outstrip, to outdistance, to outsail
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic)
- postscript, post scriptum, PS, P.S.
popular JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to stick through, to force through
- to spread throughout, to thoroughly diffuse
- to make a path between two points
- to proceed in a logical manner
- to let pass, to allow through
- to lead (someone) into (a house, room, etc.), to show in
- to go through (a middleman)
- to (look, listen) through (a window, wall, etc.)
- to pass (a law, applicant, etc.)
- to force to accept, to force agreement
- to continue (in a state), to persist in
- to do to the entirety of, to cover all of, to span the whole ...
- to do from beginning to end without a break
- to convey (one's ideas, etc.) to the other party
- to do to the end, to carry through, to complete
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) counter
- street, road, avenue, thoroughfare
- traffic, coming and going
- flow (of water, air, etc.), passage, running
- transmission (of sound), reach (of voice)
- reputation, favor, favour, popularity
- understanding, comprehension, comprehensibility, clarity
- the same way (as), as (follows, stated, expected, etc.)
- counter for sets of things
- counter for methods, ways, kinds, etc.
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to seize, to catch, to grasp, to grip, to grab, to clutch, to hold, to catch hold of, to lay one's hands on
- to obtain, to acquire, to get, to win, to capture
- to understand, to grasp, to comprehend
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- coherence, consistency
popular JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb usually written using kana alone food, cooking dated term
- to bind, to file
- to finish (a dish) by pouring beaten egg into the broth
- to sew up, to stitch together
popular JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to smash, to crush, to flatten
- to shut down, to put out of business, to force (a company) to close up shop
- to wreck, to break, to block, to thwart
- to butcher, to slaughter, to kill (livestock, for food)
- to kill (time), to while away (the time), to use up (one's time)
- to waste (e.g. talents)
popular JLPT N2 Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be crushed, to be squashed, to be smashed, to be destroyed, to be broken, to collapse
- to go bankrupt, to go under, to fail, to collapse
- to be ruined (of a plan), to be cancelled, to collapse (e.g. of a project), to fall through, to blow up
- to be lost (of one's voice, eyesight, sense of smell, etc.), to cease functioning
- to be taken up (of one's time), to be lost, to be wasted
- to be missed (of a chance), to be lost
- to be lost (of face, composure, etc.), to broken down (e.g. of one's courage), to be broken (of one's heart)
- to be worn down (of a pen nib, saw teeth, etc.), to wear away, to become dull
- to get dead drunk