Japanese/Lessons/Word list 1

This is the list of words you should have learned during the first five weeks of this course. Please ensure that you know these words.

Note: Many of these words are from the JLPT Level 4 vocabulary list.

1. あう　- to meet
2. あおい　- blue
3. あたたかい　- warm
4. あたらしい　- new
5. あつい - hot
6. あめ - rain
7. あるく　- to walk
8. いい　- good
9. いいえ　- no
10. いう　- to tell, to say
11. いぬ　- dog
12. いろ　- color
13. うえ　- top, above
14. うち　- home, house
15. うまれる　- to be born
16. うる　- to sell
17. え　- picture, painting, drawing
18. えいご　- English language
19. えん - yen (national currency of Japan)
20. えんぴつ - pencil
21. おいしい - delicious, good-tasting
22. おおきい - big
23. おかね　- money
24. おさけ - sake
25. おしえる - to teach, to instruct
26. おちゃ　- tea
27. おとこ　- man
28. おとこのこ　- boy
29. おんがく - music
30. おんな　- woman
31. おんなのこ　- girl
32. かう - to buy
33. かく - to write
34. がくせい - student
35. かぞく - family
36. からだ - body, health
37. き - tree
38. きく - to listen, to ask
39. きのう - yesterday
40. きょう - today
41. きらい - dislike, hate
42. きれい - clean, beautiful
43. ぎんこう - bank
44. くち - mouth
45. くに - country
46. くる - to come
47. けっこん - marriage
48. げんき - energetic, healthy
49. こども　- child
50. ごはん - cooked rice, a meal
51. さく - to bloom
52. ざっし - magazine
53. さむい - cold
54. じかん - time
55. した - under, below, beneath
56. しぬ - to die
57. じょうず - skill, skillful, good at
58. しる - to know
59. しろい - white
60. しんぱい - worry, care
61. すき - to like
62. すごい - awesome, terrific
63. すずしい - cool, refreshing
64. せい - height, stature
65. せかい - world
66. せんせい - teacher, doctor, master
67. ぜんぶ - all, entire
68. そと - outside
69. そら - sky
70. だいじょうぶ - safe, all right, O.K.
71. たいせつ - important
72. たいへん - serious, difficult, awful
73. たぶん - perhaps, probably
74. たべる - to eat
75. たんじょうび - birthday
76. ち - blood
77. ちいさい - small
78. ちがう - different
79. ちから - strength, power
80. ちょっと - just a minute, just a little
81. つかう - to use
82. つづり - spelling
83. つよい - strong
84. て - hand
85. てんき - weather
86. でんわ - telephone
87. どうぐ - tool, instrument
88. とけい - clock, watch
89. ところ - place, spot, one's place (room, home)
90. とぶ - to fly
91. なつ - summer
92. なる - to become
93. にく - meat
94. にげる - to escape, to run away
95. にっぽん - Japan (actually, にほん (nihon) and にっぽん (nippon) are both valid pronunciations of 日本, and moreover, there is no fixed rule to choose one pronunciation over the other; it seems like にっぽん is sometimes more preferred when talking about the Japan, and にほん - when talking about Japanese people; also usage varies from dialect to dialect)
96. にょろにょろ - wriggling-ly, like a snake
97. にわ - garden
98. ぬぐ - to take off (clothing)
99. ぬれる - to get wet
100. ねこ - cat
101. ねる - to go to bed, to sleep
102. のむ - to drink
103. のる - to get on, to ride in, to board
104. はい - yes
105. ばか - fool, idiot
106. はたらく - to work, to practice, to commit
107. ひと - man, person, human being
108. びょうき - illness
109. びょういん - hospital
110. ふく - clothes
111. ふるい - old (opposite of new, not young)
112. へや - room
113. べんきょう - study
114. ぼうし - hat
115. ほん - book
116. まずい - unappetising, unpleasant (taste, situation)
117. まち - town, street, road
118. まつ - to wait
119. まんが - manga (Japanese-style hand-drawn comic book)
120. みず - water
121. みせ - store, shop, establishment
122. みち - road, street, way, method
123. みょうじ - family name, surname
124. むこう - beyond, over there, opposite direction, the other party
125. むずかしい - difficult
126. め - eye
127. めがね - spectacles, glasses
128. もしもし - telephone "hello" (first word it is common to say over phone)
129. もの - thing, object
130. もんだい - problem, question
131. やさしい - easy, plain
132. やま - mountain
133. やめる - to stop, to resign, to end
134. ゆうびんきょく - post office
135. ゆき - snow
136. ゆめ - dream
137. よむ - to read
138. よわい - weak
139. りっぱ - splendid, fine
140. りゅうがくせい - overseas student
141. りょうしん - parents; both parents
142. りょこう - travel, trip
143. れきし - history
144. わかる - to understand, to know, to realize
145. わすれる - to forget
146. わるい - bad