List: Essential

Wordpopular  JLPT N5  な adjective  adjective (generic)  adverb  noun  noun (generic) 

• splendid, nice, wonderful, delightful, lovely, excellent, fine
• sufficient, satisfactory, enough, fine, all right, OK
• not needing (any more of something), (already) having enough, fine (as in "I'm fine"), no, thank you
• rather, quite, fairly, pretty, surprisingly, quite a bit, fairly well
• structure, construction, framework, architecture

Wordpolite language  expression 

• how are things with you?, how are you doing?, how are you getting along?, how have you been?, how are you?

Wordpopular  particle 

• at, in
• at, when
• by, with

Wordpopular  polite language  expression 

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

Wordpopular  polite language  expression 

• don't you think?, indicates question

Wordpopular  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N5  usually written using kana alone  pronoun 

• which way, which direction, where
• which one (esp. of two alternatives)
• who

Wordpopular  rarely used kanji form  usually written using kana alone  expression 

• both
• (not) either

Wordpopular  obsolete reading  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N5  usually written using kana alone  pronoun 

• this way, this direction
• here
• this (one)
• I, me, we, us
• this person

Wordpopular  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic) 

• direction, way, side, area (in a particular direction)
• side (of an argument, etc.), one's part
• type, category
• field (of study, etc.)
• indicates one side of a comparison
• way, method, manner, means
• length (of each side of a square)

Wordpopular  rarely used kanji form  JLPT N5  usually written using kana alone  suru verb  verb (generic)  intransitive verb  transitive verb  suffix  auxiliary verb 

• to do, to carry out, to perform
• to cause to become, to make (into), to turn (into)
• to serve as, to act as, to work as
• to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
• to judge as being, to view as being, to think of as, to treat as, to use as
• to decide on, to choose
• to be sensed (of a smell, noise, etc.)
• to be (in a state, condition, etc.)
• to be worth, to cost
• to pass (of time), to elapse
• to place, or raise, person A to a post or status B
• to transform A to B, to make A into B, to exchange A for B
• to make use of A for B, to view A as B, to handle A as if it were B
• to feel A about B
• verbalizing suffix (applies to nouns noted in this dictionary with the part of speech "vs")
• creates a humble verb (after a noun prefixed with "o" or "go")
• to be just about to, to be just starting to, to try to, to attempt to