List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- capitalism
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ 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 ...
ๅฏบ้ขใใใjiinpopular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- Buddhist temple
- religious building, church, cathedral, mosque
popular JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb colloquial
- to hold (in one's hand), to take, to carry
- to possess, to have, to own
- to maintain, to keep
- to last, to be durable, to keep, to survive
- to take charge of, to be in charge of
- to hold (meeting, etc.), to have (opportunity, etc.)
- to have "it", to have that special something, to be blessed with good luck
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb intransitive verb
- continuation, persisting, lasting, sustaining, enduring
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- writing, authoring
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ
- real feeling, actual feeling
- to actually feel, to have a real feeling (that ...), to experience personally
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- inside a car (train, bus, etc.)
popular obsolete reading JLPT N1 noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) adverb archaic
- some, few, a number of, a little (bit)
- somewhat, to a certain extent
- many, a lot