List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular derogatory noun noun (generic)
- (young) hoodlum, delinquent boy, delinquent girl, hooligan, punk
- small-time yakuza
- brat, little shit
popular particle
- while
- even though, despite
popular formal or literary term copula godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic)
- be, is
popular polite language expression
- it seems, I think, I guess, I wonder
- right?, don't you agree?
popular JLPT N5 conjunction particle prefix
- but, however, though, nevertheless, still, yet, even so, also, as well
- even
- however, no matter how, even if, even though
- ... or something
- either ... or ..., neither ... nor ...
- pseudo-, quack, in-name-only
- for lack of anything better to do
popular JLPT N1 particle conjunction abbreviation shogi noun noun (generic) Kyuushuu-ben
- if, when
- and
- with
- used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)
- promoted pawn
- indicates a question
popular usually written using kana alone expression
- something like ..., something called ...
popular particle conjunction expression colloquial
- and the like, such as, among other things, and so on
- or something, something like, a (certain)
- I hear that ..., people say that ..., rumour has it that ...
- or something, something like, or whatever
popular expression
- as (i.e. in the role of), for (i.e. from the viewpoint of)
- apart from ... (used to change the topic)
- even (e.g. "not even a single person")
- thinking that ..., trying to ...
popular expression
- even if ..., even supposing that ...
- also as ..., also for ..., also from the position of ...