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
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- 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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- 117
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- Creation date
- 7 June 2022 - 19:34
- Last updated
- 24 April 2024 - 01:11
Wordpopular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) adverb
- yesterday
Wordpopular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) adverb
- today, this day
- these days, recently, nowadays
Wordpopular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 ใช adjective adjective (generic) usually written using kana alone
- pretty, lovely, beautiful, fair
- clean, clear, pure, tidy, neat
- completely, entirely
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 JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- car, automobile, vehicle
- wheel, castor, caster
Wordpopular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) noun (suffix) counter
- word
- language
- speech
Wordpopular obsolete kanji JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun (suffix)
- thing, matter
- incident, occurrence, event, something serious, trouble, crisis
- circumstances, situation, state of affairs
- work, business, affair
- after an inflectable word, creates a noun phrase indicating something the speaker does not feel close to
- nominalizing suffix
- pretending to ..., playing make-believe ...
- alias, also known as, otherwise known as, or
- necessity, need
- you should ..., I advise that you ..., it's important to ...
Wordpopular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone pre-noun adjectival adjective (generic)
- this
- last (couple of years, etc.), these, past, this
- you (as in "you liar")
Wordpopular rarely used kanji form irregular okurigana JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone pronoun dated term formal or literary term adverb archaic
- this, this one
- this person
- now, this point (in time)
- here
- used to stress the subject of a sentence
- I, me
Wordpopular search-only kana form rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone conjunction
- however, but