List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular irregular okurigana noun noun (generic)
- investigation (e.g. by police or prosecutors), examination, inquiry, enquiry
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã intransitive verb
- dwelling, house, residence, address
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã transitive verb intransitive verb
- leading a meeting, presiding over a meeting, officiating at a ceremony, chairmanship
- chairman, presenter, host, moderator, master of ceremonies
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã transitive verb intransitive verb noun taking the genitive case particle ㎠adjective (generic)
- thought, consideration, thinking
popular noun noun (generic)
- branch office
popular ateji JLPT N3 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to pay
popular noun noun (generic)
- space on a page (e.g. in a newspaper)
- surface of paper
- letter, writings, document
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ㎠adjective (generic)
- capitalism
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ãã transitive verb
- breeding, raising, rearing, keeping
popular obsolete kanji JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- thing, matter
- incident, occurrence, event, something serious, trouble, crisis
- circumstances, situation, state of affairs
- work, business, affair
- after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to
- nominalizing suffix
- pretending to ..., playing make-believe ...
- alias, also known as, otherwise known as, or
- necessity, need
- you should ..., I advise that you ..., it's important to ...