# Japanese/Lessons/Word list 1

This is the list of words you should have learned during the first five weeks of this course. Please ensure that you know these words.
Note: Many of these words are from the JLPT Level 4 vocabulary list.
* あう　- to meet
* あおい　- blue
* あたたかい　- warm
* あたらしい　- new
* あつい - hot
* あめ - rain
* あるく　- to walk
* いい　- good
* いいえ　- no
* いう　- to tell, to say
* いぬ　- dog
* いろ　- color
* うえ　- top, above
* うち　- home, house
* うまれる　- to be born
* うる　- to sell
* え　- picture, painting, drawing
* えいご　- English language
* えん - yen (national currency of Japan)
* えんぴつ - pencil
* おいしい - delicious, good-tasting
* おおきい - big
* おかね　- money
* おさけ - sake
* おしえる - to teach, to instruct
* おちゃ　- tea
* おとこ　- man
* おとこのこ　- boy
* おんがく - music
* おんな　- woman
* おんなのこ　- girl
* かう - to buy
* かく - to write
* がくせい - student
* かぞく - family
* からだ - body, health
* き - tree
* きく - to listen, to ask
* きのう - yesterday
* きょう - today
* きらい - dislike, hate
* きれい - clean, beautiful
* ぎんこう - bank
* くち - mouth
* くに - country
* くる - to come
* けっこん - marriage
* げんき - energetic, healthy
* こども　- child
* ごはん - cooked rice, a meal
* さく - to bloom
* ざっし - magazine
* さむい - cold
* じかん - time
* した - under, below, beneath
* しぬ - to die
* じょうず - skill, skillful, good at
* しる - to know
* しろい - white
* しんぱい - worry, care
* すき - to like
* すごい - awesome, terrific
* すずしい - cool, refreshing
* せい - height, stature
* せかい - world
* せんせい - teacher, doctor, master
* ぜんぶ - all, entire
* そと - outside
* そら - sky
* だいじょうぶ - safe, all right, O.K.
* たいせつ - important
* たいへん - serious, difficult, awful
* たぶん - perhaps, probably
* たべる - to eat
* たんじょうび - birthday
* ち - blood
* ちいさい - small
* ちがう - different
* ちから - strength, power
* ちょっと - just a minute, just a little
* つかう - to use
* つづり - spelling
* つよい - strong
* て - hand
* てんき - weather
* でんわ - telephone
* どうぐ - tool, instrument
* とけい - clock, watch
* ところ - place, spot, one's place (room, home)
* とぶ - to fly
* なつ - summer
* なる - to become
* にく - meat
* にげる - to escape, to run away
* にっぽん - Japan (actually, にほん (nihon) and にっぽん (nippon) are both valid pronunciations of 日本, and moreover, there is no fixed rule to choose one pronunciation over the other; it seems like にっぽん is sometimes more preferred when talking about the Japan, and にほん - when talking about Japanese people; also usage varies from dialect to dialect)
* にょろにょろ - wriggling-ly, like a snake
* にわ - garden
* ぬぐ - to take off (clothing)
* ぬれる - to get wet
* ねこ - cat
* ねる - to go to bed, to sleep
* のむ - to drink
* のる - to get on, to ride in, to board
* はい - yes
* ばか - fool, idiot
* はたらく - to work, to practice, to commit
* ひと - man, person, human being
* びょうき - illness
* びょういん - hospital
* ふく - clothes
* ふるい - old (opposite of new, not young)
* へや - room
* べんきょう - study
* ぼうし - hat
* ほん - book
* まずい - unappetising, unpleasant (taste, situation)
* まち - town, street, road
* まつ - to wait
* まんが - manga (Japanese-style hand-drawn comic book)
* みず - water
* みせ - store, shop, establishment
* みち - road, street, way, method
* みょうじ - family name, surname
* むこう - beyond, over there, opposite direction, the other party
* むずかしい - difficult
* め - eye
* めがね - spectacles, glasses
* もしもし - telephone "hello" (first word it is common to say over phone)
* もの - thing, object
* もんだい - problem, question
* やさしい - easy, plain
* やま - mountain
* やめる - to stop, to resign, to end
* ゆうびんきょく - post office
* ゆき - snow
* ゆめ - dream
* よむ - to read
* よわい - weak
* りっぱ - splendid, fine
* りゅうがくせい - overseas student
* りょうしん - parents; both parents
* りょこう - travel, trip
* れきし - history
* わかる - to understand, to know, to realize
* わすれる - to forget
* わるい - bad