List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective
- eternity, perpetuity, permanence, immortality
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb transitive verb
- crossing (a road, river, etc.), cutting through (e.g. of a river through a town), cutting across, intersecting (e.g. a railway track)
- crossing (east-west), traversing, travelling across, flying across (e.g. the Pacific), sailing across
- cutting horizontally, sectioning laterally
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic)
- rooftop
popular JLPT N3 な adjective adjective (generic)
- calm, quiet, gentle, peaceful, mild
- moderate, reasonable, amicable
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- low-lying part of a city (usu. containing shops, factories, etc.)
- Shitamachi (low-lying area of eastern Tokyo near Tokyo Bay, incl. Asakusa, Shitaya, Kanda, Fukugawa, Honjo, Nihonbashi, Kyobashi and surrounds)
popular JLPT N2 adverb
- really, very, extremely, terribly, awfully
- (not) anything, (not) at all, (not) a bit
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic)
- fire, conflagration
花火はなびhanabipopular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- fireworks
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic)
- course, curriculum
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- overwork, strain