Japanese Vocabulary List

Phrases
Konnichiwa - Hello
oi - Hey
ohayo - Good Morning
konban wa - Good Evening
sayounara - Goodbye
(doumo) arigatou - Thank you (very much)
doutashimashite - You're Welcome
sumimasen - Excuse me
gomen - Sorry
genki desu ka? - How are you?
genki desu - I'm fine
anata wa? - And you?




hai - Yes
iie - No
sore - That
kore - This
sorera - Those

~Questions~
dare - Who?
nani - What?
itsu - When?
doko - Where?
doshite - Why?

_ka - (question suffix)


Counting & Time
ichi - one
ni - two
san - three
yon - four
go - five
roku - six
shichi - seven
hachi - eight
kyuu - nine
juu - ten
hyaku - hundred

_ko - object counter
_en - yen counter
_nen - year counter

ichigatsu - January
nigatsu - February
sangatsu - March
shigatsu - April
gogatsu - May
rokugatsu - June
shichigatsu - July
hachigatsu - August
kyuugatsu - September
juugatsu - October
juuichigatsu - November
juunigatsu - December

hi - day
kyou - today
ashita - tomorrow

getsuyoubi - Monday
kayoubi - Tuesday
suiyoubi - Wednesday
mokuyoubi - Thursday
kin'youbi - Friday
doyoubi - Saturday
nichiyoubi-Sunday


Nouns
doubutsu - animal
Amerikajin - American
eigo - English
nihonjin - Japanese person
nihongo - Japanese language
otearai - bathroom
hon - book
kuruma - car
neko - cat
isu - chair
ie - house
tabemono - food
mizu - water
kawa - river
yama - mountain

~People~
otoko no ko - boy
onna no ko - girl
ko - child
otoko no hito - man
onna no hito - woman
hito - person

watashi - I (formal)
watashitachi - We
atashi - Me (fem. informal)
boku - Me (masc. informal)
anata - You
anatachi - You (plural)
kare - He
kanojo - She
karera - They (mas.)
kanojotachi - They (fem.)


Adjectives
ii - good
dame - bad
genki - energetic
kirei na - pretty
minikui - ugly
tsuyoi - strong
yowai - weak

~Colors~
kuroi - black
aoi - blue
chairo - brown
haiiro - gray
midori - green
orenji iro - orange
pinku - pink
akai - red
shiroi - white
kiiro - yellow


Verbs
~U~
desu - to be
yomu - to read
au - to meet
kaku - to write
isogu - to hurry
hanasu - to speak
iku - to go
aruku - to walk
manabu - to learn
wakaru - to understand
nomu - to drink
ganbasu - to hang in there
tsukuru - to make/build
yasumu - to rest
namuru - to sleep
shinu - to die
korosu - to kill

~IRU/ERU~
miru - to see
taberu - to eat
hairu - to enter
deru - to exit
ukeru - to receive
ataeru - to give

~Irregular~
suru - to do
kuru - to come


Grammatical markers

wa - follows the subjest
wo - follows the object
ni - to
go - indirect object