List: Beginner words

Wordpopular  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  な adjective  adjective (generic)  colloquial  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  intransitive verb 

• spare time, free time, leisure
• time (it takes to do something), time required
• time off, leave, vacation, holiday
• dismissal, firing, severance, divorce
• free, not busy, unoccupied, idle
• slow (business), slack, dull
• to be free, to be not busy, to be available, to be doing nothing

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic) 

• song, singing
• classical Japanese poem (esp. tanka)
• modern poetry

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

• demon, devil, evil spirit, evil influence
• -crazed person, -obsessed person, fiend
• dreaded, terrible, awful, dreadful

Wordpopular  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N5  godan verb  godan verb (archaic)  verb (generic)  transitive verb  intransitive verb 

• to sing
• to sing of (love, beauty, etc.) in a poem, to express in the form of a poem, to recite (a poem)

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic) 

• lunch, midday meal
• food served at a tea party (tea ceremony)

Wordpopular  irregular okurigana  JLPT N5  い adjective  adjective (generic) 

• short
• brief

Wordpopular  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N3  usually written using kana alone  adverb  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic)  な adjective 

• considerably, fairly, quite, rather, pretty

Wordpopular  search-only kanji form  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic) 

• study, library, den, home office, reading room

Wordpopular  JLPT N1  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  transitive verb 

• illumination, lighting

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  godan verb  godan verb (archaic)  verb (generic)  transitive verb  usually written using kana alone  auxiliary verb 

• to put, to place
• to leave (behind)
• to establish (an organization, a facility, a position, etc.), to set up
• to appoint (someone to a certain position), to hire, to employ
• to place (one's trust, one's faith, etc.), to bear (in mind, etc.)
• to put down a tool (e.g. a pen) hence stopping what one is doing with that tool
• to take in (boarders, etc.), to provide lodging in one's house
• to separate spatially or temporally
• to do something in advance
• to leave something in a certain state, to keep something in a certain state