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Storybooks Canada: 40 picture books, easiest first

1682 words, in teaching order

Words 401–500
国くに
country; state; region; national government; central government; home (i.e. hometown, home country)
Noun
言こと葉ば
language; dialect; word; phrase; expression; term; speech; (manner of) speaking; (use of) language; words; …
Noun
語ご
word; term; language; speech
Noun
良よい
good; excellent; fine; nice; pleasant; agreeable; sufficient; enough; ready; prepared; …
I-adjective
意い味み
meaning; significance; sense
Noun
起おきる
to get up; to rise; to blaze up (fire); to wake up; to be awake; to stay awake; to occur (usu. of unfavourable incidents); to happen; to take place
Ichidan verb
オレンジ
orange (fruit, colour)
Noun
お願ねがい
request; favour (to ask); wish; please
Noun
育そだつ
to be raised (e.g. child); to be brought up; to grow (up)
Godan verb
なれる
to mature (esp. by fermentation); to ripen (e.g. wine, cheese); to be properly aged; to become seasoned
Ichidan verb
頂ちょう戴だい
receiving; getting; accepting; being given; eating; drinking; having; please (give me; do for me)
Noun
道みちすがら
along the road; along the way
Adverb
草くさ
grass; weed; herb; thatch; not genuine; substandard
Noun
もっと
(some) more; even more; longer; further
Adverb
濃こい
deep (colour); dark; strong (flavour, smell, etc.); thick (consistency); dense; strong (possibility, etc.); thick (i.e. "as thick as thieves"); close; deep (love, etc.)
I-adjective
緑みどり
green; greenery; verdure
Noun
カラカラ
parched; dried-up; bone-dry; empty; hollow; rattling; clattering; laughing loudly; roaring with laughter
Na-adjective
乾かわく
to get dry
Godan verb
野の
field; plain; hidden interior part (of a structure or object); wild (of an animal or plant)
Noun
花はな
flower; blossom; bloom; petal; cherry blossom; beauty; blooming (esp. of cherry blossoms); ikebana; hanafuda; (the) best; …
Noun
通とおる
to go by; to go past; to go along; to travel along; to pass through; to use (a road); to take (a route); to go via; to go by way of; to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.); …
Godan verb
ずっと
continuously; the whole time; all the way; throughout; much (more); (by) far; far and away; a lot; a great deal; far (away); …
Adverb
咲さく
to bloom; to flower; to blossom; to open
Godan verb
校こう庭てい
schoolyard; school playground; school grounds; campus
Noun
真まん中なか
middle; centre; center; midpoint; heart
Noun
枝えだ
branch; bough; limb; twig; sprig; spray
Noun
広ひろげる
to spread; to extend; to expand; to enlarge; to widen; to broaden; to unfold; to open; to unroll; to unwrap; …
Ichidan verb
木こ陰かげ
shade of a tree; bower
Noun
読よめる
to be able to read; to be legible; to be decipherable; to be readable (text, etc.); to read well; to understand; to divine; to perceive; to see
Ichidan verb
周まわり
circumference; girth; surroundings; neighbourhood; neighborhood; vicinity; people surrounding oneself; surrounding circumstances
Noun
巡めぐる
to go around; to make a circle around; to surround; to circle; to enclose; to come around (of a season, anniversary, turn, etc.); to return; to repeat; to circulate (of blood, money, etc.); to travel around; …
Godan verb
話はなす
to talk; to speak; to converse; to chat; to tell; to explain; to narrate; to mention; to describe; to discuss; …
Godan verb
悪わるい
bad; poor; undesirable; poor (quality); inferior; insufficient; evil; sinful; ugly; not beautiful; …
I-adjective
入はいる
to enter; to come in; to go in; to get in; to arrive; to join (a club, company, etc.); to enter (a university, the army, etc.); to enroll (in); to go into (e.g. politics); to get into; …
Godan verb
帰かえる
to return; to come home; to go home; to go back; to leave (of a guest, customer, etc.); to get home; to get to home plate
Godan verb
訪たずねる
to visit; to call on; to pay a visit to
Ichidan verb
あなた
you
Pronoun
実じつは
as a matter of fact; by the way; to tell you the truth; to be honest; frankly; actually
Expression
まだ
still; as yet; only; (not) yet; more; (more) still; at least; comparatively; relatively; unfinished; …
Adverb
青あおい
blue; azure; green; pale (facial color); gray; grey; unripe; inexperienced
I-adjective
つく
to breathe out; to breathe; to tell (a lie); to use (foul language); to vomit; to throw up; to spit up
Godan verb
また
again; once more; once again; another time; some other time; also; too; as well; likewise; on the other hand; …
Adverb
明日あした
tomorrow
Noun
多た分ぶん
probably; likely; perhaps; maybe; a lot of; much; many; considerable; large (amount); generous
Adverb
時とき
time; hour; moment; occasion; case; chance; opportunity; season; the times; the age; …
Noun
熟じゅくす
to ripen; to mature; to be ready for action; to be the right time (to act); to be in common use; to come to sound natural; to become skilled
Godan verb
用よう意い
preparation; arrangements; provision; getting ready; laying out (e.g. a meal)
Noun
すごい
terrible; dreadful; amazing (e.g. of strength); great (e.g. of skills); wonderful; terrific; to a great extent; vast (in numbers)
I-adjective
とっても
very; awfully; exceedingly; (not) at all; by no means; simply (cannot)
Adverb
寝ね坊ぼう
sleeping in late; oversleeping; late riser; sleepyhead
Noun
早はや起おき
getting up early; early rising; early riser; early bird
Noun
だって
even; too; as well; also; they say; I hear; you mean
Particle
光ひかり
light; illumination; ray; beam; gleam; glow; happiness; hope; influence; power; …
Noun
部屋へや
room; chamber; apartment; flat; pad; stable
Noun
入いれる
to put in; to let in; to take in; to bring in; to insert; to install (e.g. software); to set (a jewel, etc.); to ink in (e.g. tattoo); to admit; to accept; …
Ichidan verb
朝あさ
morning; breakfast
Noun
スター
star (actor, athlete, etc.); celebrity; star (symbol); asterisk; (celestial) star
Noun
嫌いや
disliking; not wanting; unwilling (to do); reluctant; unpleasant; disagreeable; nasty; horrible; disgusting; undesirable; …
Na-adjective
匂におい
smell; scent; odour; odor; stench; aura; whiff; smack; flavour; flavor; …
Noun
使つかう
to use (a tool, method, etc.); to make use of; to put to use; to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to handle; to manage; to manipulate; to use (time, money, etc.); to spend; …
Godan verb
なんとか
something; something or other; so-and-so; somehow (handling, dealing with something); anyhow; one way or another
Expression
うまい
skillful; skilful; skilled; good; expert; clever (expression, trick, etc.); apt; appropriate; delicious; tasty; …
I-adjective
やる
to send; to dispatch; to despatch; to put; to move; to turn (one's head, glance, etc.); to give (esp. to someone of equal or lower status); to let have; to present; to bestow; …
Godan verb
歯は
tooth; teeth; tooth (of a comb, saw, etc.); cog; support (of a geta)
Noun
磨みがく
to polish; to shine; to burnish; to scour; to scrub; to brush (teeth); to grind (e.g. a lens); to refine (a skill, etc.); to improve; to hone; …
Godan verb
忘わすれる
to forget; to leave carelessly; to be forgetful of; to forget about; to forget (an article)
Ichidan verb
念ねん
sense; idea; thought; feeling; desire; concern; attention; care
Noun
押おす
to push; to thrust; to shove; to press (down); to push (e.g. a button); to exert pressure on; to stamp (e.g. one's name); to affix (a seal); to affix (e.g. gold leaf); to push (someone for something); …
Godan verb
訳わけ
reason; cause; grounds; meaning; sense; (good) sense; circumstances; case; (romantic) relationship; love affair
Noun
おじいちゃん
grandpa; granddad
Noun
叔母おば
aunt
Noun
挨あい拶さつ
greeting; greetings; salutation; salute; polite set phrase used when meeting or parting from someone; speech (congratulatory or appreciative); address; reply; response; courtesy visit (to offer condolences, say congratulations, pay respect, introduce oneself, etc.)
Noun
日にち
Sunday; nth day (of the month); counter for days; Japan
Noun
願ねがう
to desire; to wish; to hope; to beg; to request; to implore; to pray; to have something done for oneself
Godan verb
それから
and then; after that
Expression
着きる
to wear (from the shoulders down); to put on; to take (the blame, responsibility); to bear
Ichidan verb
姉ねえさん
older sister; elder sister; young lady; miss; ma'am
Noun
ボタン
button (clothing); push-button; button
Noun
はめる
to fit (e.g. a pane into a frame); to insert (e.g. a cork); to fasten (a button); to put on (something that envelops; e.g. a ring, gloves); to place (a hoop) around; to attach (e.g. a hose to a tap); to pigeonhole (into a particular category); to force (into a mold); to place (restrictions) on; to entrap; …
Ichidan verb
止とめ
(a) stop (e.g. in a timber joint, or at the end of a kanji stroke); remaining (e.g. poste-restante)
Noun
金きん
gold (metal); gold (color); gold (medal); first place (prize); something of great value; something golden (e.g. silence); money; gold coin; sum (of money); Friday; …
Noun
止とめる
to stop; to turn off; to park; to prevent; to suppress (a cough); to hold back (tears); to hold (one's breath); to relieve (pain); to stop (someone from doing something); to dissuade; …
Ichidan verb
起おこる
to occur; to happen
Godan verb
出で来き事ごと
occurrence; happening; incident; event
Noun
全ぜん部ぶ
all; entire; whole; altogether
Noun
教おしえる
to teach; to instruct; to tell; to inform; to show; to preach
Ichidan verb
授じゅ業ぎょう
lesson; class; teaching; instruction; classwork; schoolwork
Noun
どんな
what kind of; what sort of; what; no matter what (kind of); whatever; any; all
Pre-noun adjectival
頑がん張ばる
to persevere; to persist; to keep at it; to hang on; to hold out; to do one's best; to insist that; to stick to (one's opinion); to remain in a place; to stick to one's post; …
Godan verb
毎まい日にち
every day; daily
Noun
こう
in this way; like this; so; thus; this (much); uh; er; mm; well
Adverb
いっぱい
one cup (of); one glass (of); one bowl (of); cupful; glassful; bowlful; spoonful; one drink (of alcohol); full; filled (with); …
Noun
とことん
the very end; finish; to the very end; to the last; thoroughly; completely; fully
Noun
カバ
birch (esp. Japanese white birch)
Noun
毛け
hair; fur; wool; down; plumage; feathers
Noun
訳わけ
reason; cause; grounds; meaning; sense; (good) sense; circumstances; case; (romantic) relationship; love affair
Noun