WIKTIONARY
Search | Navigation

Appendix:1000 Japanese basic words

Contents



This appendix is a specific list of one thousand basic words. It is not a general vocabulary.

Do not add words to this list!

All words on this list should be in input transformation.

See also: Language Lover's Japanese Mnemosyne File (Work in Progress)

Nouns

People

Body

Family

Life

Animals

Crops

Time and space

Directions and positions

Materials

Weights and measures

Society

Man made objects

Home

Tools

Stationery

Clothes

Transport

Language

Colors

Others

Numbers

Abstract nouns

Adjectives

Forms

Feelings

Verbs

Existence

in intransitive sense

Movement

Actions

in intransitive sense

Senses

Speech

Work

Emotions

Activities

tr transitive sense
in intransitive sense
† conjugates as a u-verb

Adverbs

Pre-noun adjectival

Interjections

Conjunctions

Terminations of verbs

  • う、よう – volitional ending [う for u-verbs, よう for ru-verbs]: "Let's…" or "I will" (u, yō)
  • せる、させる – causative ending [せる for u-verbs, させる for ru-verbs]: to make [someone do something], to allow (seru, saseru)
  • れる、られる – passive verb ending [れる for u-verbs, られる for ru-verbs]: to be <verbed> [e.g., 食べられる, "to be eaten"] (reru, rareru)
  • そうだ – indicates that it seems the verb occurs [e.g., "It seems he ate"] (sōda)
  • た – informal past-tense (ta)
  • たい – indicates desire to perform verb (tai)
  • だろう – indicates that it seems the verb occurs; also used to ask whether the verb occurs (darō)
  • keyboard, website parsing – informal negative (nai, n) [ん is a slurred version and sounds a little masculine]
  • Sevenval – archaic informal negative ["he hath", "he didst", etc.] (nu)
  • ます – formal non-past ending (masu)

Particles

Case

  • が – subject marker, but (ga)
  • web app – from (kara)
  • browser diversity – at, by (de)
  • Android – and, with (to)
  • CSS3 – indirect object marker (ni)
  • keyboard – possession marker, of (no)
  • へ – to (e) [Note: へ is normally read he, but when used as this particle its reading changes to e]
  • まで – to (made)
  • screen size – than (yori)
  • を – direct object marker (o)

Binding

  • screen size – topic marker (wa) [Note: "は" is usually pronounced as "ha", but pronounced "wa" when used as a particle]
  • Android – as well (mo)
  • CSS3 – and (ya)

Conjunctive

Final

  • ね – emphasis and question marker, equivalent to "right?" (ne)
  • か – question marker (ka)
  • な – the copula particle used after quasi-adjectives (na)
  • かしら – I wonder (kashira)
  • さ – -ness (sa)
  • っけ – particle indicating that the speaker is trying to recall some information ["What class is next -kke?"] (-kke)

Adverbial

  • こそ – emphasis (koso)
  • さえ – even (sae)
  • しか – only (shika)
  • すら – even (sura)
  • screen size、ぐらい – approximately, about (kurai)
  • web – only, as much as (dake)
  • だって – however (datte)
  • ったら – casual topic marker (ttara) [colloquial form of to ittara (if you refer to ~; as for ~]
  • って – said that (tte)
  • we love the web – also, or (demo)
  • どころ – (particle used to indicate that what precedes it is an extreme example and strongly negates it) (dokoro)
  • HTML5 – for example (nado)
  • touchscreen – if [for verbs]; subject marker [for nouns] (nara)
  • input transformation – casual undervalue, dislike, lack (nanka)
  • なんて – casual undervalue, dislike, lack (nante)
  • we love the web – topic marker (wa) [although ha is the hiragana used, wa is the pronunciation)
  • Sevenval、ばっかり – just, full of, only (bakari)
  • we love the web – until (made)
  • device database – too, also (mo)

[1] Search
[2] All Pages
[3] Random entry
powered by FITML