Vocabulary list: Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, Vol. 1

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please (give me); please (do for me)
じゃあ
Top 700
then; well; so; well then
どうぞ
Top 900
please; kindly; by all means; certainly; here you are; to give
どうも
Top 1000
thank you; thanks; much (thanks); very (sorry); quite; really; somehow
movie; film; motion picture
music
magazine; journal; periodical
スポーツ
Top 5400
sport; sports
デート
Top 4000
date (with someone); (social) outing (for two); date night; date (day)
テニス
Top 12500
tennis
テレビ
Top 2100
television; TV; TV program; TV programme; TV broadcast
ビデオ
Top 9600
video (esp. a televised image); videotape; VHS tape; videocassette recorder; VCR; video (short film)
breakfast
お酒さけ
Top 3200
alcohol; sake
お茶ちゃ
Top 1400
tea (esp. green or barley); tea break; teatime; tea ceremony
コーヒー
Top 2800
coffee
dinner; evening meal
hamburger (in a bun); burger
lunch; midday meal
水みず
Top 500
water (esp. cool or cold); fluid (esp. in an animal tissue); liquid; flood; floodwaters; water offered to wrestlers just prior to a bout
家いえ
Top 200
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
家うち
Top 28600
one's house; one's home; one's family; house
school
朝あさ
Top 500
morning; breakfast
tomorrow; near future
いつ
Top 400
when; at what time; how soon; normal times; ordinary days
today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
ごろ
Top 4500
(approximate) time; around; suitable time (or condition); time of year; season
tonight; this evening
weekend
Saturday
Sunday
every day; daily
every night
行いく
Top 100
to go; to move (towards); to move through; to travel across; to go (well, badly, etc.); to proceed; to do (in a particular way)
to return; to come home; to leave (of a guest, customer, etc.); to get home; to get to home plate
聞きく
Top 100
to hear; to listen (e.g. to music); to ask; to enquire; to hear about; to hear of; to follow (advice, order, etc.)
飲のむ
Top 400
to drink; to swallow; to smoke (tobacco); to swallow up; to engulf; to suppress (one's anger, bitter feelings, etc.); to keep down
to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
読よむ
Top 400
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to pronounce; to read (e.g. a kanji)
to get up; to rise; to wake up; to be awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen
to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
寝ねる
Top 400
to sleep (lying down); to go to bed; to lie in bed; to lie down; to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse); to lie flat (e.g. of hair); to lie idle (of funds, stock, etc.)
見みる
Top 100
to see; to look; to examine; to look over; to look after; to attend to; to experience
来くる
Top 100
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
する
Top 100
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
study; diligence; working hard; experience; knowledge; discount
いい
Top 100
good; excellent; sufficient; enough; profitable (deal, business offer, etc.); beneficial
fast; quick; early; soon; premature; too soon
あまり
Top 400
remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively; extreme