List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- state (of affairs), situation, circumstances
- appearance, look(s), air, manner, behaviour, demeanor
- sign, indication
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する
- appeal, call for something, request, claim, demand
- axiom
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic)
- chance, opportunity, occasion
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- commemoration, celebration, remembrance, memory, honoring the memory of
- memento, souvenir, keepsake
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- doubt, question, suspicion, dubiousness
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb
- argument, discussion, dispute, controversy
popular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb
- game, match, contest, competition, sport, (sporting) event
popular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する transitive verb intransitive verb biology
- competition, contest, rivalry, race
- competition (between organisms or species)
popular JLPT N3 noun taking the genitive case particle の adjective (generic) な adjective noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb する intransitive verb noun (suffix)
- common, shared, mutual
- to be common (to), to be shared (by)
- -wide
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- fear, horror, anxiety, concern, uneasiness, reverence