Vocabulary list: The Enormous Turnip 大きなかぶ - Beginner Japanese 日本語初級

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かぶ
Top 24700
stock; share; stump; (clump of) roots; plant with attached roots or stem; strain (of bacteria, etc.); stock company
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Top 100
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
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よいしょ
Top 4400
huff!; yo-heave-ho!; heigh-ho; to butter up; to suck up to
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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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Top 100
indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; regardless of; whether (or not)
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Top 1000
to come out; to fall out; to fade; to discolour; to wear a hole (e.g. clothes); to leave (e.g. a meeting); to be clear
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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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です
Top 100
be; is
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grandfather; male senior-citizen
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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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Top 100
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
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to help; to assist; to aid; to contribute to; to be a factor in
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Top 100
at (place, time); in; to (direction, state); toward; for (purpose); because of (reason); for
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Top 100
at; in; at; when; by; with; and then
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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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big; large; great
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may (it) be so; please let (it) happen
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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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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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まだ
Top 100
still; as yet; (not) yet; more; (more) still; at least
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Top 200
to call out (to); to call; to summon (a doctor, etc.); to invite; to designate; to name; to garner (support, etc.)
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みんな
Top 200
everyone; everybody; all; everything; all
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this time; now; next time; another time; recently; lately
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Top 1200
to pull out; to draw out; to omit; to leave out; to do to the end; to carry through; to let out (e.g. air from a tyre)
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to grow up; to become an adult; to become big; to grow in size
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いぬ
Top 1500
dog (Canis (lupus) familiaris); squealer; rat; loser; asshole; counterfeit
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to pull; to draw; to string (lines); to run (cable); to pull towards oneself (e.g. someone's sleeve); to drag; to haul
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まご
Top 3900
grandchild
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たね
Top 4400
seed (e.g. of a plant); pip; material (e.g. for an article); matter (e.g. of a story); ingredient; leaven (bread); cause
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grandmother; old woman; female senior citizen
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する
Top 100
to try to ...; to be about to do ...; to decide to ...; to take as; to treat as; to use for; to suppose that (such) is the case
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together (with); at the same time; in a lump
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but (still); and yet; nevertheless; even so; notwithstanding
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どんどん
Top 1100
drumming (noise); beating; rapidly; quickly; continuously; one after the other
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two persons; two people; pair; couple
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おいし
Top 1500
delicious; tasty; sweet; attractive; appealing; convenient
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ねこ
Top 1600
cat (esp. the domestic cat, Felis catus); shamisen; geisha; wheelbarrow; clay bed-warmer; bottom; submissive partner of a homosexual relationship
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つち
Top 2100
earth; soil; the earth (historically, esp. as opposed to the heavens); the ground; low-quality torinoko-gami (containing mud); (period of) refraining from construction in the direction of the god of the earth (in Onmyōdō)
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Top 6500
to plant; to grow; to insert; to transplant; to inoculate (e.g. an infectious agent); to instill (idea, value, etc.)
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ロシア
Top 7500
Russia
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ネズミ
Top 8400
mouse; rat; dark gray; dark grey; slate (color, colour)
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national flag
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Top 100
to become; to get; to result in; to turn out; to consist of; to be composed of; to be completed
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Top 100
to be (of animate objects); to exist; to stay; to be ...-ing; to have been ...-ing
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to think; to consider; to think (of doing); to plan (to do); to judge; to assess; to imagine
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でも
Top 100
but; however; even; however; no matter how; ... or something; either ... or ...
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Top 100
to do; to undertake; to send; to dispatch; to put; to move; to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status)
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ながら
Top 100
while; during; while; although; all; both
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ですか
Top 200
indicates question
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today; this day; these days; recently; nowadays
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