List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone conjunction
- but, however, provided that
popular usually written using kana alone suffix
- pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to follow (a road, path, etc.), to trace
- to follow (a clue, scent, tracks, plot, etc.), to trace (a route, history, family tree, etc.), to retrace (e.g. one's memory), to search, to go over
- to head towards (of a situation), to go in the direction of, to take (a course), to pursue (a path), to meet (a fate)
popular JLPT N2 noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) grammar
- single, one
- singular (number)
popular JLPT N1 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb intransitive verb
- to lament, to grieve, to regret
- to deplore
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to come apart at the seams, to be ripped, to be torn
- to begin to open, to begin to bloom
- to smile broadly, to break into a smile
popular irregular okurigana usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb auxiliary verb
- to indulge in, to give oneself up to, to be obsessed by
- to be engrossed in, to be lost in, to be absorbed in
popular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- birthday
ๅฃๆใใกใuchiwapopular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- uchiwa, type of traditional Japanese handheld fan
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to flip, to snap, to flick
- to repel
- to use (an abacus), to calculate
- to strum, to pluck the strings (of a guitar, etc.)