List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular auxiliary verb verb (generic)
- like, as if, the same as
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone adverb archaic interjection
- how, in what way
- how (much), to what extent
- however (much), no matter how
- hey, oi
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to leave (a matter, decision, etc. to someone), to entrust (to someone), to entrust (someone) with
- to leave (to chance, one's imagination, etc.), to let (take its own course), to let (happen), to give (oneself to something)
- to use (money, strength, spare time, etc.) to the full, to use freely, to use without reserve
popular irregular okurigana JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to wet, to moisten, to dampen, to soak, to dip
popular usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum), Japanese bunching onion, green onion, spring onion, scallion
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- dislike of very hot food or drink, inability to take hot food, cat tongue
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) ใช adjective
- bent back, hunchback, stoop
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) dated term adverb
- approximate age, apparent age
- marriageable age (esp. of a woman), age of maturity, age of adulthood
- age (when ...)
- for years (past), for a long time
popular noun noun (generic)
- willpower, faith
- telekinesis, psychokinesis
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb dated term
- to twist, to wrench, to turn (a tap, switch, etc.)
- to twist (a body part), to bend, to sprain
- to strangle (to death), to wring (an animal's neck)
- to defeat easily, to beat
- to make (a problem, design, etc.) intricate, to make peculiar, to make complicated
- to manage to compose (a haiku, song, etc.)
- to wrap (a monetary gift) in paper