JLPT N1 Vocabulary List

JAPANESE YOMIKATA MEAN WORD TYPE
何時 いつ when, how soon -
何時か いつか sometime, someday, one day, some time or other, the other day, in due course, in time -
何時でも いつでも (at) any time, always, at all times, never (neg), whenever -
何時の間にか いつのまにか before one knows, unnoticed, unawares -
何時までも いつまでも forever, for good, eternally, as long as one likes, indefinitely -
何時も いつも always, usually, every time, never (with neg. verb) -
意図 いと intention, aim, design -
営む いとなむ to carry on (e.g. in ceremony), to run a business -
いとま free time, leisure, leave, spare time, farewell -
異動 いどう a change -
挑む いどむ to challenge, to contend for, to make love to -
稲光 いなびかり (flash of) lightning -
いにしえ antiquity, ancient times -
祈り いのり prayer, supplication -
いびき snoring -
今更 いまさら now, at this late hour -
未だ いまだ as yet, hitherto, not yet (neg) -
移民 いみん emigration, immigration, emigrant, immigrant -
厭々 いやいや unwillingly, grudgingly, shaking head in refusal (to children) -
卑しい いやしい greedy, vulgar, shabby, humble, base, mean, vile -
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