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
- Description
- 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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fr3nd- Number of entries
- 117
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- Words
- Creation date
- 7 Jun 2022, 7:34 p.m.
- Last updated
- 9 Dec 2025, 1:20 p.m.
Wordpopular JLPT N4 noun noun (generic) sumo
- place, location, spot, position, area
- room, space
- sumo tournament
Wordpopular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to drink, to swallow, to take (medicine)
- to smoke (tobacco)
- to swallow up, to engulf
- to suppress (one's anger, bitter feelings, etc.), to keep down, to hold back, to swallow (one's tears), to catch (one's breath)
- to accept (a demand, conditions, etc.), to agree to
- to make light of (someone), to think nothing of, to overwhelm, to overawe
- to carry (a concealed dagger, etc.), to conceal (up one's sleeve, etc.)
Wordpopular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- Japan
Wordpopular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb shogi honorific language auxiliary verb
- to become, to get, to grow, to turn, to reach, to attain
- to result in, to turn out, to end up, to prove (to be)
- to consist of, to be composed of, to be made up of
- to be completed, to be realized, to succeed, to be attained, to be accomplished
- to change (into), to turn (into), to transform
- to come (to do), to begin (to do), to grow (to do)
- to come to, to amount to, to add up to, to make
- to play (the part of), to act as
- to be used for, to be useful for, to serve as
- to be promoted
- to do ...
Wordpopular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- name
- given name, first name
ไธญใชใnakaWordpopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) adverb noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) archaic
- inside, interior
- among, within
- middle, center, centre
- during, while, middle, midst, amid
- interval, gap
- mean, average
- second (of three, e.g. sons, volumes), middle
- medium grade, medium quality
- red-light district
Wordpopular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone adverb
- very, awfully, exceedingly
- (not) at all, by no means, simply (cannot)
Wordpopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- year
- age, years
- past one's prime, old age
Wordpopular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) adverb suffix usually written using kana alone
- place, spot, scene, site
- address
- district, area, locality
- one's house
- point, aspect, side, facet
- passage (in text), part
- space, room
- thing, matter
- whereupon, as a result
- about to, on the verge of
- was just doing, was in the process of doing, have just done, just finished doing
- approximately, around, about
Wordpopular JLPT N3 noun noun (generic) adverb grammar
- time, hour, moment
- occasion, case
- chance, opportunity, season
- the times, the age, the day
- tense