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
- 5 May 2024 - 14:27
Wordpopular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- line, stripe, stria
- line (e.g. telephone line), wire
- ray (e.g. X-ray), beam
- line (e.g. of a railroad), track, route, lane
- outline, contours, form
- level
- division
- line (of action), position, approach, policy, principle
- impression one leaves, air one gives off
Wordpopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- train, electric train
Wordpopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- car, automobile, vehicle
- wheel, castor, caster
Wordpopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) abbreviation sumo
- room, chamber
- apartment, flat, pad
- stable
Wordpopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- name
- given name, first name
Wordpopular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) adverb suffix usually written using kana alone
- place, spot, scene, site
- address
- district, area, locality
- one's house
- point, aspect, side, facet
- passage (in text), part
- space, room
- thing, matter
- whereupon, as a result
- about to, on the verge of
- was just doing, was in the process of doing, have just done, just finished doing
- approximately, around, about
Wordpopular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) sumo
- place, location, spot, position
- room, space
- basho, wrestling tournament
Wordpopular JLPT N5 abbreviation noun noun (generic)
- subway, metro, underground (railway)
Wordpopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) adverb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) archaic
- inside, interior
- among, within
- middle, center, centre
- during, while, middle, midst, amid
- interval, gap
- mean, average
- second (of three, e.g. sons, volumes), middle
- medium grade, medium quality
- red-light district
Wordpopular obsolete reading JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- outside, exterior
- the open (air)
- other place, somewhere else, outside one's group (family, company, etc.)