Vocabulary list: Minna no Nihongo I - Lesson 1

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Indonesia
bank employee; bank staff member; bank clerk
engineer
ブラジル
Top 28700
Brazil
South Korea; Republic of Korea; Korean Empire (1897-1910)
pleased to meet you; how do you do; my regards (to someone); my greetings; best wishes
company employee; office worker; white-collar worker
タイ
Top 15300
Thailand
how old?; what age?
インド
Top 8000
India
researcher
ドイツ
Top 6700
Germany
イギリス
Top 6600
United Kingdom; Britain; Great Britain; England
How do you do?; I am glad to meet you
company employee; member of a corporation; company stockholder (esp. in legal contexts)
フランス
Top 5600
France
China; Chūgoku region (western part of Honshu comprising the prefectures of Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane); central part of a country; main region; province of the second lowest rank (ritsuryo system)
いくつ
Top 4900
how many; how old
どなた
Top 4600
who
that gentleman; that lady; he; she
electricity; (electric) light
アメリカ
Top 2800
(United States of) America; United States; US; America (land mass); the Americas
(medical) doctor; physician
teacher (classroom)
student (esp. a university student)
university; college; former central university of Kyoto (established under the ritsuryo system for the training of government administrators); the Great Learning (one of the Four Books)
じん
Top 1700
-ian (e.g. Italian); -ite (e.g. Tokyoite); -er (e.g. performer, etc.); person working with ...; man; person
hospital; clinic; doctor's office; doctor's surgery; infirmary
いいえ
Top 1500
no; nay; well; er; you're welcome; not at all
please
all; everyone; everybody
he; she; that person; (arch.) you
Japan
discourtesy; impoliteness; excuse me; goodbye; to leave; to be rude
we; us
teacher; instructor; sensei; title or form of address for a teacher, master, doctor, lawyer, etc.; intimate or teasing form of address; (arch.) one's elder
くん
Top 500
Mr (junior); master; boy
ちゃん
Top 500
suffix for familiar person
はい
Top 500
yes; that is correct; understood; I see; present; here; pardon?
さい
Top 500
-years-old
ですが
Top 400
but; however; (and) yet; nevertheless; still; for all that
name; given name; first name
こちら
Top 300
this way; this direction; here; this (one); I; me
だれ
Top 200
who
あなた
Top 200
you; dear; honey
Top 100
honorific/polite/humble prefix
Top 100
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
さん
Top 100
Mr.; Mrs.; Miss; politeness marker
I; me
です
Top 100
be; is