List: Core Japanese words
This is arguably the list of the most important words that any beginner student should begin learning. This list is inspired from the content in https://www.fluentin3months.com/core-japanese-words/
List: Core Japanese words
- Description
- This is arguably the list of the most important words that any beginner student should begin learning. This list is inspired from the content in https://www.fluentin3months.com/core-japanese-words/
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- fr3nd
- Number of entries
- 117
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- Words
- Creation date
- 7 June 2022 - 19:34
- Last updated
- 20 March 2024 - 01:43
Wordpopular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- Japan
Wordpopular obsolete kanji irregular okurigana JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) adverb
- good, advantage, benefit, welfare
- sake, purpose, objective, aim
- consequence, result, effect
- affecting, regarding, concerning
Wordpopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone
- person, someone, somebody
- human beings, mankind, man, people, humans
- human (Homo sapiens)
- (other) people, others
- character, personality, nature
- capable person, competent person, suitable person, right person
- adult, grown-up
- I, me, one
Wordpopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone noun (suffix) prefix
- thing, object, article, stuff, substance
- one's things, possessions, property, belongings
- things, something, anything, everything, nothing
- quality
- reason, the way of things
- used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc., used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense), used to indicate a general tendency, used to indicate something that should happen
- item classified as ..., item related to ..., work in the genre of ...
- cause of ..., cause for ...
- somehow, somewhat, for some reason
- really, truly
Wordpopular obsolete kanji JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) historical term archaic
- country, state
- region
- national government, central government
- home (i.e. hometown, home country)
- province (of Japan)
- land, earth
Wordpopular obsolete kanji JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) historical term abbreviation
- university, college
- former imperial university of Japan (established under the ritsuryล system for the training of government administrators)
- the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
Wordpopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) adverb
- now, the present time, just now, soon, immediately
- another, more
Wordpopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) adverb suffix colloquial
- in front (of), before (e.g. a building)
- before, earlier, previously, prior, ago, (minutes) to (the hour)
- (the) front, frontal part, fore, head (e.g. of a line)
- forward, ahead
- (in the) presence (of), in front (of someone)
- previous (e.g. page), prior (e.g. engagement), first (e.g. half), former (e.g. example)
- portion, helping
- front (of one's body or clothing), breast (of a coat, kimono, etc.)
- privates, private parts
- criminal record, previous conviction, (a) prior
Wordpopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) adverb archaic
- behind, rear
- after, later
- remainder, the rest
- more (e.g. five more minutes), left
- also, in addition
- descendant, successor, heir
- after one's death
- past, previous
Wordpopular obsolete kanji JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) historical term counter
- railway station, train station
- staging post on a highway (in pre-modern Japan)
- counter for railway stations and bus stations