List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to warp, to curve, to arch, to bend
- to bend backward (body or body part, e.g. fingers)
popular noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- anti-Japanese
popular conjunction particle rare term noun noun (generic)
- while, although, though, but
- (but) on the other hand, at the same time, then again, and yet
- opposite side, other side, reverse
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) military
- group, party, team
- squad, section
popular search-only kana form ateji rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone い adjective adjective (generic) interjection
- noisy, loud
- annoying, troublesome, tiresome, persistent, importunate
- fussy, finicky, picky, particular, nagging, fastidious, bossy
- shut up, be quiet
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 counter kabuki noun noun (generic)
- the nth ...
- divisions of a kabuki performance
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N1 い adjective adjective (generic)
- lowborn, humble, lowly
- vulgar, coarse, crude, mean, base, vile, despicable, dirty, unfair
- shabby, poor-looking
- greedy, gluttonous, avaricious
popular noun noun (generic)
- no, the noes
popular usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to protect (someone), to look after (e.g. an injured leg), to defend, to cover for, to stand up for, to stick up for
popular JLPT N4 pronoun noun noun (generic)
- he, him
- boyfriend