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Top 100 Japanese Words - Most Common Japanese Vocabulary

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.

Recognition

Recognize common Japanese words in short A1 prompts.

Recall

Recall core Japanese words from English cues and topic groups.

Sentence building

Use frequent Japanese words in short beginner sentences.

AI learner prompts

  • Practice the Japanese Top 100 words for 10 minutes.
  • Quiz me on beginner Japanese words from the Top 100 words.
  • Show me five useful Japanese sentences using frequent A1 words.

A1 connected vocabulary preview

Words below are loaded from the aligned vocabulary catalog used by the trainer, with each concept matched across study languages.

102 matching concepts
Concept日本語EnglishDeutsch
i#1Iich
the#1そのtheder/die/das
you#2あなたyou (informal)du
he#3heer
she#4彼女shesie
a#5一つのa / anein
we#5私たちwewir
it#6それites
this#7これthisdies
that#8それthat (conjunction)dass
who#9whower
what#10whatwas
where#11どこwherewo
how#12どうやってhow / likewie
not#13ないnotnicht
and#14andund
or#15またはoroder
but#16しかしbutaber
with#17と一緒にwithmit
on#19の上にonauf
for#20のためにforfür
to#22tozu
at#23at / onan
so#24だからsoso

Connected words across languages

These entries come from the aligned vocabulary system, so each concept can connect the current study language to matching words in other languages.

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