List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- knowledge, awareness
- acceptance, consent, assent, agreement, compliance, acknowledgment, acknowledgement
- forgiving, pardoning, excusing
popular obsolete reading JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- news (from someone), letter, contact
- (someone's) whereabouts, (someone's) movements
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- upper stream, upper course, upper reaches
- upstream
- upper classes
popular JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- decoration, ornament, trimmings
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- food, foodstuff
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) colloquial
- believer, adherent, devotee, follower
- fanboy, fanatic, superfan
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- oscillation, vibration, swing (e.g. of a pendulum)
popular JLPT N1 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to deepen, to heighten, to intensify
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 な adjective adjective (generic) noun noun (generic)
- pitch-dark, pitch-black, completely dark
- very bleak (future), utterly hopeless
popular search-only kanji form noun noun (generic)
- relatives, one's family
- friends, members of the same organization
- followers, henchmen
- one's whole body