List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- low temperature
popular noun noun (generic)
- going too far, going to extremes
popular noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone
- pivot
- vital point, cornerstone, keystone
- Japanese photinia
popular JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic) noun (suffix) noun (generic) archaic noun
- better, preferable, less objectionable, least-worst
- more, increase, extra
- increase, growth
popular noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic)
- indefinite
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- care, attentiveness, attention, consideration (for others), solicitude
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- pursuit (of a goal, ideal, etc.), search, chase, seeking after
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N4 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb archaic suffix
- to go by, to go past, to go along, to travel along, to pass through, to use (a road), to take (a route), to go via, to go by way of
- to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.), to operate (between), to connect
- to go indoors, to go into a room, to be admitted, to be shown in, to be ushered in, to come in
- to penetrate, to pierce, to skewer, to go through, to come through
- to permeate, to soak into, to spread throughout
- to carry (e.g. of a voice), to reach far
- to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen), to be relayed, to be conveyed
- to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.), to be approved, to be accepted
- to go by (a name), to be known as, to be accepted as, to have a reputation for
- to be coherent, to be logical, to be reasonable, to be comprehensible, to be understandable, to make sense
- to get across (e.g. of one's point), to be understood
- to pass for, to come across as, to seem like
- to be straight (e.g. wood grain)
- to be well-informed, to be wise
- to do ... completely, to do ... thoroughly
popular JLPT N4 Ichidan verb verb (generic) transitive verb
- to soak (in), to steep, to dip, to dunk
- to pickle, to preserve (in salt, vinegar, etc.)
popular search-only kana form JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- low (rank, degree, value, content, quality, etc.)
- low (position), close to the ground
- short (height)
- deep (voice), in a low key, low (volume)