List: Useful Nouns

Wordpopular  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N1  noun  noun (generic)  Brazilian 

• colony
• (Japanese) settlement (in Brazil)

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  transitive verb  abbreviation 

• equipment, device, installation, apparatus
• stage setting

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic) 

• effect, effectiveness, efficacy, result
• effects (e.g. sound effects, visual effects, special effects)

Wordpopular  JLPT N2  noun  noun (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic) 

• exception

Wordnoun  noun (generic) 

• over-the-counter drug

Wordpopular  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  transitive verb  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic) 

• theft, stealing, larceny

Wordpopular  JLPT N1  noun  noun (generic)  colloquial 

• fraud, swindle, graft, cheating, trick, scam
• saying you're going to do something but in the end not doing it, making promises without keeping them, flaking out

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  finance 

• flow (of a fluid or gas), stream, current
• flow (of people, things), passage (of time), tide, passing, (changing) trends, tendency
• course (of events), (step-by-step) procedure, process
• group of people who remain together after the end of an event
• descent, ancestry, school
• forfeiture, foreclosure
• cancellation
• drifting, wandering, roaming

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic) 

• limit, bound

Wordpopular  noun  noun (generic) 

• fist fight