List: popular word
Words commonly used in modern Japanese
popular ใช adjective adjective (generic)
- soft, tender, pliant, supple
- soft (colour, light, etc.), subdued, gentle (demeanour, voice, etc.), mild
- informal, light, flexible (e.g. thinking)
popular noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb finance
- softening
- softening (of attitude), mollification
- weakening (of the market)
- blanching (of vegetables; by depriving them of light)
popular noun noun (generic)
- journal, log
popular JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- farming, agriculture, cultivation
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- tearing up and discarding (e.g. documents), destruction
- annulment, cancellation, abrogation, voiding, breaking (e.g. a treaty)
- reversal (of an original ruling on appeal), quashing
popular rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ transitive verb
- overfishing, overhunting, indiscriminate fishing, indiscriminate hunting
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to abandon, to give up on, to desert
popular noun noun (generic)
- food poisoning
popular godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) su verb - precursor to the modern suru transitive verb
- to entrust (someone) with, to leave (a matter) with someone, to place under someone's care
- to have someone deliver (a message, parcel, etc.), to send (through someone), to leave (a message) with someone
- to use (something) to express (one's feelings, opinion, etc.), to express in the form of (something)
- to use as a pretext
popular noun noun (generic)
- pigeon, dove