JLPT N5 · Beginner

JLPT N5 Vocabulary List

786 words

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  1. する

    verb

    to do

  2. なる

    verb

    to become

  3. 人ひと

    noun

    person

  4. to think,to feel

  5. 年とし

    noun

    year

  6. 日にち

    noun

    sun,sunshine,day

  7. 私わたし

    pronoun

    I,myself

  8. (humble) I,myself

  9. それ

    pronoun

    that

  10. できる

    verb

    to be able to

  11. これ

    pronoun

    This

  12. 言いう

    verb

    to say

  13. 中なか

    noun

    middle

  14. そう

    adverb

    really, so

  15. 一いち

    noun

    one

  16. 何なん

    interrogative

    what

  17. Oneself

  18. 方かた

    noun

    person, way of doing

  19. 時とき

    noun

    (1) time,hour,(2) occasion,moment

  20. problem

  21. to consider

  22. また

    adverb

    again,and

  23. 今いま

    adverb

    now

  24. やる

    verb

    to do

  25. 前まえ

    noun

    before

  26. 行いく

    verb

    to go

  27. どう

    interrogative

    how,in what way

  28. 出でる

    verb

    to appear,to leave

  29. Time

  30. 書かく

    verb

    to write

  31. 二に

    noun

    two

  32. 持もつ

    verb

    to hold

  33. 上うえ

    noun

    on top of

  34. 事こと

    noun

    thing,matter

  35. 事こと

    noun

    thing,matter,fact,circumstances

  36. to use

  37. talk,story

  38. くれる

    verb

    to give

  39. 本ほん

    noun

    book

  40. ここ

    pronoun

    Here, here

  41. 分ぶん

    noun

    dividing,part,segment

  42. 目め

    noun

    eye

  43. 多おおい

    adjective

    many

  44. 知しる

    verb

    to know

  45. Today

  46. 家いえ

    noun

    house

  47. 聞きく

    verb

    to hear, to listen to, to ask

  48. 点てん

    noun

    point,dot

  49. 万まん

    noun

    ten thousand

  50. もう

    adverb

    already

  51. 読よむ

    verb

    to read

  52. to enter,to contain

  53. 来くる

    verb

    to come

  54. 仕事しごと

    verbal noun

    Job

  55. 同おなじ

    adjectival noun

    same

  56. 彼かれ

    pronoun

    he,boyfriend

  57. 国くに

    noun

    Country

  58. 三さん

    noun

    Three

  59. 君きみ

    noun

    (informal) You (used by men towards women)

  60. meaning

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