Vocabulary list: Housework 家事 - Beginner Japanese 日本語初級

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hello; good day; good afternoon
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today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
3
Top 100
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
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Top 5800
housework; domestic chores; family affairs; household matters
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concerning; regarding; per (e.g. 100 yen per person); for every
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to talk; to speak; to tell; to explain; to speak (a language)
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いえ
Top 200
house; residence; family; household; lineage; family name
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Top 100
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
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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.)
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for example; for instance; e.g.
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cooking; cookery; cuisine; dealing with something; handling; administration
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cleaning; sweeping; dusting; scrubbing
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washing; laundry; relaxing; taking a break
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です
Top 100
be; is
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Top 200
liked; well-liked; in love (with); loved; faddism; eccentricity
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ですか
Top 200
indicates question
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I; me
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Top 100
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
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あまり
Top 400
remainder; remnant; (not) very; (not) much; too much; excessively
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じゃ
Top 500
then; well; so; be; is
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Top 100
to be; to exist; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen
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Top 100
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
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いや
Top 600
disagreeable; detestable; unpleasant; reluctant
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でも
Top 100
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
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every day
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Top 100
to go; to move (in a direction or towards a specific location); to proceed; to take place; to pass through; to come and go; to walk
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これ
Top 100
this; this one; this person; now; this point (in time); here; used to stress the subject of a sentence
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Top 100
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; (at sentence-end, falling tone) indicates a confident conclusion; (at sentence-end) indicates emotional emphasis; (at sentence-end, rising tone) indicates question
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おっと
Top 1900
husband
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Top 100
if; when; and; with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.); promoted pawn; indicates a question
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together (with); at the same time; in a lump
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Top 100
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
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cooperation; collaboration
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to accomplish; to fulfill; to carry out
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to eat; to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on
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あと
Top 300
behind; rear; after; later; remainder; the rest; more (e.g. five more minutes)
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Top 100
honorific/polite/humble prefix
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washing-up; dish-washing
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さら
Top 9100
plate; dish
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ごしごし
Top 15600
scrubbing hard; scrubbing clean
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あら
Top 1800
to wash; to cleanse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore)
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alternately; by turns
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taking turns
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washing machine (laundry)
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we; us
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よる
Top 300
evening; night; dinner
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つぎ
Top 300
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
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Top 300
day; days; sun; sunshine; (the) day; daytime; date
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あさ
Top 400
morning; breakfast; (arch.) next morning
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ふく
Top 700
clothes (esp. Western clothes); counter for doses of medicine, gulps of tea, drags of a cigarette, etc.
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