Appendix:1000 Japanese basic words

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

Do not add words to this list!

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

[edit] Nouns

[edit] People

[edit] Body

[edit] Family

[edit] Life

[edit] Animals

[edit] Crops

[edit] Time & Space

[edit] Directions & Positions

[edit] Materials

[edit] Weights and Measures

[edit] Society

[edit] Man made objects

[edit] Home

[edit] Tools

[edit] Stationery

[edit] Clothes

[edit] Transport

[edit] Language

[edit] Colors

[edit] Others

[edit] Numbers

[edit] Abstract Nouns

[edit] Adjectives

[edit] Forms

[edit] Feelings

[edit] Verbs

[edit] Existence

[edit] Movement

[edit] Actions

[edit] Sensations

[edit] Speech

[edit] Work

[edit] Emotions

[edit] Activities

[edit] Adverbs

[edit] Pre-noun adjectival

[edit] Interjections

[edit] Conjunctions

[edit] Terminations of verbs

  • う よう - Volitional ending (う for u-verbs, よう for ru-verbs): "Let's..." or "I will" (u, you)
  • せる させる- Causative ending (せる for u-verbs, させる for ru-verbs): to make (someone do something) or 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 (eg. 食べられる, "to be eaten") (reru, rareru)
  • そうだ Indicates that it *seems* the verb occurs (It seems he ate, etc) (sou da)
  • 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 (darou)
  • ない, ん - Informal negative (nai, n) (ん is a slurred version and sounds a little masculine)
  • ぬ - Archaic informal negative ("he hath", "he didst", etc.) (nu)
  • ます - Formal non-past ending (masu)

[edit] Particles

[edit] Case

  • が - subject marker, but (ga)
  • から - from (kara)
  • で - at, by (de)
  • と - and, with (to)
  • に - indirect object marker (ni)
  • の - 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)
  • より - than (yori)
  • を - direct object marker (o)

[edit] Binding

  • は - topic marker (wa)
  • も - as well (mo)
  • や - and (ya)

[edit] Conjunctive

[edit] 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 (-kke)

[edit] Adverbial

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