The 100 most common Japanese words for beginners: a frequency word list with free A1 practice. The first 100 high-frequency words to support beginner recognition and sentence building.
Recognize common Japanese words in short A1 prompts.
Vocabulary trainer →Recall core Japanese words from English cues and topic groups.
Vocabulary trainer →Use frequent Japanese words in short beginner sentences.
Vocabulary trainer →Words below are loaded from the aligned vocabulary catalog used by the trainer, with each concept matched across study languages.
| Concept | 日本語 | English | Deutsch |
|---|---|---|---|
| i#1 | 日本語私 | EnglishI | Deutschich |
| you#2 | 日本語 |
These entries come from the aligned vocabulary system, so each concept can connect the current study language to matching words in other languages.
Public comparison is limited to three languages at a time.
| Englishyou (informal) |
| Deutschdu |
| he#3 | 日本語彼 | Englishhe | Deutscher |
| she#4 | 日本語彼女 | Englishshe | Deutschsie |
| we#5 | 日本語私たち | Englishwe | Deutschwir |
| it#6 | 日本語それ | Englishit | Deutsches |
| this#7 | 日本語これ | Englishthis | Deutschdies |
| that#8 | 日本語それ | Englishthat (conjunction) | Deutschdass |
| who#9 | 日本語誰 | Englishwho | Deutschwer |
| what#10 | 日本語何 | Englishwhat | Deutschwas |
| where#11 | 日本語どこ | Englishwhere | Deutschwo |
| how#12 | 日本語どうやって | Englishhow / like | Deutschwie |
| not#13 | 日本語ない | Englishnot | Deutschnicht |
| and#14 | 日本語と | Englishand | Deutschund |
| or#15 | 日本語または | Englishor | Deutschoder |
| but#16 | 日本語しかし | Englishbut | Deutschaber |
| with#17 | 日本語と一緒に | Englishwith | Deutschmit |
| on#19 | 日本語の上に | Englishon | Deutschauf |
| for#20 | 日本語のために | Englishfor | Deutschfür |
| to#22 | 日本語へ | Englishto | Deutschzu |
| at#23 | 日本語に | Englishat / on | Deutschan |
| so#24 | 日本語だから | Englishso | Deutschso |
| also#25 | 日本語も | Englishalso | Deutschauch |
| very#26 | 日本語とても | Englishvery | Deutschsehr |