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Storybooks Canada: 40 picture books, easiest first

1682 words, in teaching order

Words 101–200
キャベツ
cabbage (Brassica oleracea)
Noun
切きる
to cut; to cut through; to perform (surgery); to sever (connections, ties); to turn off (e.g. the light); to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to disconnect; to punch (a ticket); to tear off (a stub); …
Godan verb
ニンジン
carrot (Daucus carota); Asian ginseng (Panax ginseng)
Noun
すり
pickpocket
Noun
下おろす
to take down; to bring down; to lower (a hand, flag, shutter, etc.); to drop (an anchor, curtain, etc.); to let down (hair); to launch (a boat); to drop off (a passenger); to let off; to unload (goods, a truck, etc.); to offload; …
Godan verb
豆まめ
legume (esp. edible legumes or their seeds, e.g. beans, peas, pulses); bean; pea; soya bean (Glycine max); soybean; soy; small; miniature; baby; midget; …
Noun
洗あらう
to wash; to cleanse; to rinse; to inquire into; to investigate; to purify (one's heart); to lave (e.g. shore); to wash over (e.g. deck); to sweep
Godan verb
バター
butter
Noun
ナッツ
nuts
Noun
カット
cut; cutting; omission; reduction; haircut; (continuous) shot (in a film or TV show); illustration (in a book, newspaper, etc.); cut (shot; in tennis, table tennis, etc.); chop; cutting (the ball); …
Noun
ほうれん草そう
spinach (Spinacia oleracea)
Noun
ザクザク
walking on frost; crunching (e.g. on gravel); lots of coins or jewels; cutting into large pieces; loosely weaving; large (pieces, stitches, sand grains, etc.)
Adverb
タマネギ
onion (Allium cepa)
Noun
ママ
mom; mommy; mum; mummy; mother; mama; mamma; female proprietress (of a bar, etc.)
Noun
ボク
I; me
Pronoun
目め
eye; eyeball; eyesight; sight; vision; look; stare; gaze; glance; notice; …
Noun
涙なみだ
tear; tears; lachrymal secretion; sympathy
Noun
こぼれる
to spill; to fall out of; to overflow; to peek through; to become visible (although normally not); to escape (of a smile, tear, etc.)
Ichidan verb
本ほん
book; volume; script; this; present; current; ... in question; ... at issue; main; head; …
Noun
読よむ
to read; to recite (e.g. a sutra); to chant; to predict; to guess; to forecast; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine; to pronounce; …
Godan verb
の
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
Particle
好すき
liking; being fond of; to one's liking; to one's taste; preferred; favourite; liking (romantically); being in love with; beloved; faddism; …
Na-adjective
誰だれ
who
Pronoun
妹いもうと
younger sister
Noun
寝ねる
to sleep (lying down); to go to bed; to lie in bed; to lie down; to sleep (with someone, i.e. have intercourse); to lie flat (e.g. of hair); to lie idle (of funds, stock, etc.); to ferment (of soy sauce, miso, etc.)
Ichidan verb
ばあちゃん
granny; grandma; gran; old lady; old woman
Noun
忙いそがしい
busy; occupied; hectic; restless; hurried; fidgety
I-adjective
僧そう
monk; priest; sangha (the Buddhist community)
Noun
爺じい
old man
Noun
自じ分ぶん
myself; yourself; oneself; himself; herself; I; me; you
Pronoun
いい
good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable; sufficient; enough; ready; prepared; …
I-adjective
僕ぼく
I; me
Pronoun
体からだ
body; torso; trunk; build; physique; frame; figure; health; constitution
Noun
ジャンプ
jump; jumping event (skiing, track and field); jumping (to another page after clicking a hyperlink); jump (in price); sudden rise
Noun
できる
to be able to do; to be possible; to be permitted (to do); to be good at; to do well; to be proficient (in); to be capable; to come into existence; to form; to appear; …
Ichidan verb
ダンス
dance; dancing
Noun
縄なわ跳とび
skipping rope; jump rope; skipping; rope-jumping
Noun
ける
to kick; to refuse; to reject; to stamp (on the ground); to firmly press one's feet (against something)
Godan verb
危あぶない
dangerous; risky; hazardous; perilous; precarious; in danger; in jeopardy; critical; grave; at risk; …
I-adjective
逃にげる
to run away; to flee; to get away (e.g. from danger); to escape; to break out; to leave (e.g. one's spouse); to take cover; to avoid (a question, responsibility, etc.); to evade; to dodge; …
Ichidan verb
だけど
but; however; although
Conjunction
どうしても
by all means; at any cost; no matter what; at any rate; surely; whether (one is) willing or not; willingly or unwillingly; willy-nilly; on no account; by no means; …
Expression
空そら
sky; the air; the heavens; weather; far-off place; distant place; state of mind; feeling; (from) memory; (by) heart; …
Noun
髪かみ
hair (on the head)
Noun
アナ
announcer
Noun
一いち番ばん
number one; first; first place; best; most; game; round; bout; as a test; as an experiment; …
Noun
編あむ
to knit; to plait; to braid; to compile (anthology, dictionary, etc.); to edit
Godan verb
ババ
old woman; joker (in old maid)
Noun
ひる
to dry (up); to become parched; to ebb; to recede
Ichidan verb
下げ
lowness (of degree, value, etc.); inferiority; second volume (of two); third volume (of three)
Noun
生はやす
to grow; to cultivate; to let grow (e.g. weeds)
Godan verb
溶とかす
to melt; to liquefy; to thaw; to dissolve (in a liquid); to bring into solution
Godan verb
ターボ
turbo
Noun
剃そる
to shave
Godan verb
働はたらく
to work; to labor; to labour; to function; to operate; to be effective; to work (i.e. ... works); to come into play; to commit (e.g. a crime); to perpetrate; …
Godan verb
弟おとうと
younger brother; little brother; kid brother; brother-in-law (spouse's younger brother or younger sister's husband)
Noun
覚さます
to awaken; to arouse from sleep; to bring to one's senses; to disabuse (someone of); to sober up
Godan verb
火ひ
fire; flame; blaze
Noun
起おこす
to raise; to raise up; to set up; to pick up; to stand (something) up; to wake; to wake up; to waken; to awaken; to cause; …
Godan verb
お湯ゆ
hot water; hot bath
Noun
沸わかす
to boil; to heat (a liquid); to prepare (a bath, hot drink); to excite; to rouse; to stir
Godan verb
薪たきぎ
piece(s) of firewood (esp. chopped or split from logs); kindling (twigs, branches, etc.); firewood
Noun
割わる
to divide; to cut; to halve; to separate; to split; to rip; to break; to crack; to smash; to dilute; …
Godan verb
鍋なべ
pan; pot; saucepan; stew; hot pot
Noun
かき混まぜる
to mix; to stir; to scramble; to churn
Ichidan verb
床ゆか
floor; stage (for the narrator and the shamisen player); dining platform built across a river
Noun
掃そう除じ
cleaning; sweeping; dusting; scrubbing
Noun
さら
plate; dish; platter; disc; serving; helping; course; kanji radical 108 (at the bottom)
Noun
なんで
why?; what for?; how?; by what means?
Adverb
一いっ生しょう懸けん命めい
very hard; with utmost effort; as hard as one can; with all one's might; for dear life; eagerly; desperately
Adverb
遊あそび
play; playing; game; pleasure; amusement; pastime; recreation; diversion; play (in a mechanism, e.g. a steering wheel); flexibility (in a performance, art, etc.); …
Noun
夢む中ちゅう
absorbed in; immersed in; crazy about; obsessed with; devoted to; forgetting oneself; daze; trance; ecstasy; delirium; …
Na-adjective
言いう
to say; to utter; to declare; to name; to call; to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise
Godan verb
貼はる
to stick; to paste; to affix; to stretch; to spread; to strain; to tighten; to put up (e.g. a tent); to form (e.g. ice on a pond); to fill; …
Godan verb
ワニ
crocodile; alligator
Noun
昔むかし
the old days; the past; former times; a long time ago; the past ten years; the past decade
Noun
ある
to be; to exist; to live; to have; to be located; to be equipped with; to happen; to come about; to exist (in a completed state); to be (something unchanged in its current state)
Godan verb
ところ
place; spot; scene; site; address; district; area; locality; one's house; point; …
Noun
ゆっくり
slowly; unhurriedly; without haste; leisurely; at one's leisure; easily (e.g. in time); well; sufficiently; amply; with time to spare; …
Adverb
静しずか
quiet; silent; slow; unhurried; calm; peaceful
Na-adjective
探さがす
to search for; to look for; to hunt for; to seek; to search (a house, pocket, etc.); to search through; to rummage in (e.g. a drawer); to fish around
Godan verb
そして
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
Conjunction
パクッ
(gaping) widely
Adverb taking と
とうとう
finally; at last; in the end; ultimately
Adverb
捕つかまえる
to catch; to capture; to arrest; to seize; to restrain; to grab; to clutch; to grasp; to hold on to; to catch hold of (someone); …
Ichidan verb
もう
already; yet; by now; now; (not) any more; (not) any longer; soon; shortly; before long; presently; …
Adverb
幸しあわせ
happiness; good fortune; luck; blessing
Noun
または
or; either ... or ...
Conjunction
ら
pluralizing suffix; or so; rough indicator of direction, location, amount, etc.; nominalizing suffix
Suffix
天てん気き
weather; fair weather; fine weather
Noun
乾かん燥そう
dryness; aridity; drying (e.g. clothes); dehydration; desiccation; insipidity
Noun
日ひ
day; days; sun; sunshine; sunlight; (the) day; daytime; daylight; date; deadline; …
Noun
様さま
Mr; Mrs; Miss; Ms; makes a word more polite (usu. in fixed expressions); state; situation; appearance; manner
Suffix
暖あたたかい
warm; mild; (pleasantly) hot; warm (of a colour); mellow; having enough money
I-adjective
風かぜ
wind; breeze; draught; draft; manner; behaviour; behavior; cold; influenza
Noun
吹ふく
to blow (of the wind); to blow (one's breath); to breathe out; to blow on (hot tea, candles, etc.); to puff; to play (a wind instrument); to blow (a whistle, trumpet, etc.); to whistle (a tune); to emit (smoke, fire, etc.); to spout; …
Godan verb
雲くも
cloud
Noun
寒さむい
cold (e.g. weather); uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull; weak; corny
I-adjective
よう
appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style; design; like; similar to; thing (thought or spoken)
Suffix