Japanese vocabulary lists

Posted on Monday 15 March 2010

  • Hi everyone,

    I was wondering if there are members here who might have some usefull vocabulary lists on their pc and who are willing to share them with me ? Or if you have links to any good websites with vocabulary (merely daily used words), I would be glad if you could share them with me.

    Thanks in advance !


  • Here's a vocabulary list (http://www.thejapanesepage.com/download/vocabulary1_0.pdf), apparently for the JLPT tests. It's in PDF. My plan is to memorize it this year!!


  • http://wakan.manga.cz/
    和漢


  • list of japanese sound effects: (good for manga, etc)

    http://www.oop-ack.com/manga/soundfx.html

    vocabulary from a number of books:

    http://www.kahome.co.uk/japa/tango.pl?mo=0


  • vs - verb constructed with する
    v1 - ichidan verb
    v5s - godan verb ending in す
    v5r - godan verb ending in る
    v5m - godan verb ending in む
    etc.

    The letters that appear after the 5s are redundant if you ask me. If you look at the word you can see what its ending is.


  • Here's a full list from EDICT documentation:
    adj adjective (keiyoushi)
    adj-na adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
    adj-no nouns which may take the genitive case particle `no'
    adj-pn pre-noun adjectival (rentaishi)
    adj-t `taru' adjective
    adv adverb (fukushi)
    adv-n adverbial noun
    adv-to adverb taking the `to' particle
    aux auxiliary
    aux-v auxiliary verb
    aux-adj auxiliary adjective
    conj conjunction
    exp Expressions (phrases, clauses, etc.)
    id idiomatic expression
    int interjection (kandoushi)
    iv irregular verb
    n noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
    n-adv adverbial noun (fukushitekimeishi)
    n-pref noun, used as a prefix
    n-suf noun, used as a suffix
    n-t noun (temporal) (jisoumeishi)
    neg negative (in a negative sentence, or with negative verb)
    neg-v negative verb (when used with)
    num numeric
    pref prefix
    prt particle
    suf suffix
    v1 Ichidan verb
    v5 Godan verb (not completely classified)
    v5aru Godan verb - -aru special class
    v5b Godan verb with `bu' ending
    v5g Godan verb with `gu' ending
    v5k Godan verb with `ku' ending
    v5k-s Godan verb - iku/yuku special class
    v5m Godan verb with `mu' ending
    v5n Godan verb with `nu' ending
    v5r Godan verb with `ru' ending
    v5r-i Godan verb with `ru' ending (irregular verb)
    v5s Godan verb with `su' ending
    v5t Godan verb with `tsu' ending
    v5u Godan verb with `u' ending
    v5u-s Godan verb with `u' ending (special class)
    v5uru Godan verb - uru old class verb (old form of Eru)
    vi intransitive verb
    vk kuru verb - special class
    vs noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru
    vs-i suru verb - irregular
    vs-s suru verb - special class
    vt transitive verb
    vz zuru verb - (alternative form of -jiru verbs)

    Buddh Buddhist term
    MA martial arts term
    comp computer terminology
    food food term
    geom geometry term
    gram grammatical term
    ling linguistics terminology
    math mathematics
    mil military
    physics physics terminology

    X rude or X-rated term
    abbr abbreviation
    arch archaism
    ateji ateji (phonetic) reading
    chn children's language
    col colloquialism
    derog derogatory
    ek exclusively kanji
    fam familiar language
    fem female term or language
    gikun gikun (meaning) reading
    hon honorific or respectful (sonkeigo) language
    hum humble (kenjougo) language
    id idiomatic expression
    m-sl manga slang
    male male term or language
    male-sl male slang
    ng neuter gender
    obs obsolete term
    obsc obscure term
    pol polite (teineigo) language
    rare rare
    uK word usually written using kanji alone
    uk word usually written using kana alone
    vulg vulgar expression or word


  • A really good program i use is Wakan and it has an inbuilt vocabulary list that you can print and a dictionary japanese-english english-japanese and it has a kanji finder thing that has like tonnes of kanji and it helps so much! you might like the vocabulary listings ：D


  • Thanks guys, very interesting links.

    Though I dont really understand all the abbrevations used on the JLPT vocabulary list. adj and n are clear but things like vs and the verb abbrevations are unclear. Could you help me out on here please ?







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