Most recent Japanese word you've learned?

結果「けっか」- result
毬栗「いがぐり」- chestnut
能力「のうりょく」- ability
i set one of my phone games to japanese and i can’t understand anything :') fun for learning new things though

地球温暖化ちきゅうおんだんか - Global warming

Thanks Yotsuba&!

提訴 ていそ - presenting a case; suing
提起 ていき - raising (a question); bringing up (a problem); instituting (a lawsuit); filing (a claim); submitting (a case)
地裁 ちさい - district court
長官 ちょうかん - secretary (government); director; chief
司法長官 しほうちょうかん - attorney general; attorney-general
声明 せいめい - declaration; statement; proclamation
歴代 れきだい - successive generations; successive emperors
乱用 らんよう - abuse; misuse; misappropriation; using to excess
合法ごうほう - legal; lawful; legitimate
合法的 ごうほうてき - legal; lawful; legitimate; law-abiding; in order

茸「きのこ」- mushroom
かっこいい - attractive
競技「きょうぎ」- game or competition

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アナグマ、
アナグマ、
アナグマ、
アナグマ、
茸、茸!

こなゆき - powdery snow

From a song title covered by Toshi in his latest album.

不可逆 (ふかぎゃく) - irreversible
From the My First Story song title 「不可逆リプレイス」

Your Digital Media course sounds somewhat more interesting and useful than mine lol

At least there’s a lot of free time…

揺蕩うーたゆたうーto waver
漸進ーぜんしんーsteady advance
矜持ーきょうじーpride

I was talking to a Japanese person the other day and they told me about the word うさぎの家. It translates to “rabbit house” and means a small house.

おばさん - Aunt

Came up several times while I was playing Pokemon Sword and I got curious first word (and so far only) I actually bothered looking up

ふみふみ - kneading - thank you POLL thread :laughing:

将来 - future, as in the near future

Heard it in a song and then it was in the context sentences of one of my wanikani vocabs right after. It was in hiragana as しょうらい

旋毛 つむじ hair whorl or cow’s lick

鬱陶しい - うっとうしい, meaning “gloomy, depressing” or “irritating, troublesome”. That’s a lot of radicals for such a general word, but I guess that’s depressing or at least troublesome so it fits.

覆る・くつがえるto be overturned; to be capsized; to be toppled; to be reversed

覆す・くつがえすto overturn; to capsize; to topple; to overthrow; to reverse

Heard Edo Phoenix (Aster Phoenix) using the word 覆す in Yu-Gi-Oh Duel Links:

さぁ、覆してみろ。。。お前の運命を!
~ “So, just try and turn the tide … of destiny!”

It caught my interest, because it feels like a -返す compound, although I’m not sure what the first component would be.

At first I thought maybe 靴 (くつ - shoes) was an old word for “bottom” or “surface” or something, but I can’t find anything to support that; Gogen suggests it may be a mimetic onomatopoeia, or possibly related to the words 蹴る and 足る, while Wiktionary points to a possible connection tot he Korean word 구두 (gudu).

Still, I can remember the word 覆る by thinking of the expression “The shoe’s on the other foot, now!”

While looking into possible etymologies of the words 覆る and 靴, I saw the same kanji used in the Wikipedia article on 靴, but with a completely different kun’yomi and meaning:

覆う・おおうto cover; to permeate; to include everything

Not sure I’ll remember this word quite as well, but I suppose I might remember a large sea (oo u) covering everything.
Alternatively, there is the nominalized form 覆い (“cover; hood”); if you have a lot (多い) of things, they will cover your floor.

I was listening to a Christmas song in Japanese and thought the whole time they kept saying, “Sori”, they were talking about a sound, because that’s what Sori means, but it didn’t make sense contextually.

Realized a while later that I was thinking of “sori” in Korean. Apparently it means “sled” in Japanese, which makes WAY more sense lmao.

淡水「たんすい」- fresh water (vs salt water)
美しい「うつくしい」 - beautiful or pure

時差 [じさ] - time difference
格差 [かくさ] - disparity/gap
(傘を)差す [(かさを)さす] - to open (an umbrella)
物差 [ものさし] - ruler (this one :straight_ruler:, not this :crown:)

Lots of 差 in my vocab deck today

I was horrified when I read in a book that someone was eating 目玉焼き.

Turned out it means fried egg…