List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular onomatopoeic or mimetic word adverb adverb taking the と particle な adjective adjective (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の noun or participle taking the aux. verb する noun (generic)
- fluently (speaking a foreign language)
- incessantly (speaking), glibly, garrulously, volubly
- one after the other (flipping through pages)
- thin (paper, cloth, etc.), flimsy, weak
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone pre-noun adjectival adjective (generic)
- mere, only, just, slight
popular ateji rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to struggle, to writhe, to wriggle, to squirm
- to act frantically, to make desperate efforts
popular rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- hospitality, reception, treatment, service, entertainment
- (light) refreshment, entertaining with food and drink, treat
popular rarely used kanji form obsolete kanji JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone adverb
- before long, soon, shortly
- almost, nearly
- finally, in the end, eventually
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 onomatopoeic or mimetic word usually written using kana alone adverb
- at last, finally
- barely, narrowly, just, by the skin of one's teeth
popular ateji rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone adverb
- as expected, sure enough, just as one thought
- after all (is said and done), in the end, as one would expect, in any case
- too, also, as well, likewise, (not) either
- still, as before
- all the same, even so, still, nonetheless
popular search-only kana form rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone colloquial godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb slang vulgar expression or word intransitive verb suffix auxiliary verb
- to do, to undertake, to perform, to play (a game), to study
- to send, to dispatch, to despatch
- to put, to move, to turn (one's head, glance, etc.)
- to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status), to let have, to present, to bestow, to confer
- to make (a vehicle) go faster
- to run (a business), to keep, to be engaged in, to practice (law, medicine, etc.), to practise
- to have (food, drink, etc.), to eat, to drink, to smoke
- to hold (a performance), to perform, to show
- to ease (one's mind)
- to harm, to injure, to kill
- to have sex, to fuck, to bang
- to live, to get by, to get along
- to do ... completely
- to do ... broadly, to do ... to a great distance
- to do ... for (someone of equal or lower status), to do ... to
- to make active efforts to ...
popular usually written using kana alone expression suru verb verb (generic)
- to see to it that ..., to make sure that ..., to try to ..., to make an effort to ...
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to send, to forward
- to hand over (e.g. money)