List: Japanese Vocab Shortcut - Yuta's Course

Wordpopular  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N5  usually written using kana alone  pre-noun adjectival  adjective (generic)  interjection 

• that, the
• part (as in "part two")
• um ..., er ..., uh ...

Wordpopular  particle  colloquial  adverb 

• too, also, in addition, as well, (not) either (in a negative sentence)
• both A and B, A as well as B, neither A nor B (in a negative sentence)
• even, as much as, as many as, as far as, as long as, no less than, no fewer than
• even if, even though, although, in spite of
• further, more, again, another, the other

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  obsolete reading  obsolete kanji  JLPT N5  usually written using kana alone  pronoun 

• where, what place
• how much (long, far), what extent

Wordpopular  particle 

• I wonder
• should I?, is it?
• I wish that, I hope that

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  suffix  usually written using kana alone 

• eye, eyeball
• eyesight, sight, vision
• look, stare, gaze, glance
• notice, attention, observation, eyes (of the world, public, etc.)
• an experience
• viewpoint
• discrimination, discernment, judgement, eye (e.g. for quality)
• (an) appearance
• chance (of success), possibility (of a good result)
• spacing (between crossed strands of a net, mesh, etc.), opening, stitch, texture, weave
• grain (of wood, paper)
• eye (of a storm, needle, etc.)
• intersection (on a go board), square (on a chessboard)
• dot (on a dice), pip, rolled number
• graduation, division (of a scale)
• tooth (of a saw, comb, etc.)
• ordinal number suffix
• somewhat, -ish
• point (e.g. of change)

Wordpopular  conjunction  particle 

• but, however, although

Wordpopular  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N1  usually written using kana alone  pre-noun adjectival  adjective (generic) 

• that, those, the

Wordpopular  particle  archaic 

• if ... then, when
• and
• why don't you...?
• the more (one does something)
• because, since

Wordpopular  polite language  expression 

• it seems, I think, I guess, I wonder
• right?, don't you agree?