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Written against: Every word of the JLPT N3 vocabulary list compiled by Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk, CC BY; no official list since 2010) and every N3 kanji of kanji-data not already in the N5 and N4 decks (352 of its 367, with 泣 and 暖: 354 kanji), with grammar patterns and in-context cloze; sentences use N5–N3 kanji, pitch accent from Kanjium. Updated 2026-10-10.

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Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.

Part 1 Sixty kanji commonly listed for N3 — feelings, family and people, body and health, home and daily life, weather and nature, and travel — each with meaning, on/kun readings and one or two example words. 10 free · 60 cards in the app Part 2 Sixty more kanji commonly listed for N3 — work and money, study and communication, everyday action verbs, change and results, qualities and states, and society and law — each with meaning, on/kun readings and example words. 10 free · 60 cards in the app Part 3 Fifty-nine more kanji commonly listed for N3, the most frequent in newspapers — society and law, work and money, news and numbers, everyday verbs, plans and results, and abstract words like whole, most and side — each with meaning, on/kun readings and example words. 10 free · 59 cards in the app Part 4 Fifty-nine more kanji commonly listed for N3 — thought and doubt, movement, work and money, explaining and performing, common action verbs, results, qualities and states, and offices and rules — each with meaning, on/kun readings and example words. 10 free · 59 cards in the app Part 5 Fifty-nine more kanji commonly listed for N3 — feelings and people, home, nature and travel, work and study, action verbs, change and results, and qualities and states — each with meaning, on/kun readings and example words. 10 free · 59 cards in the app Part 6 Fifty-seven more kanji commonly listed for N3 — feelings and wishes, home and daily life, travel and escape, action verbs (pull out, scatter, fall over, hug), qualities, and crime and courtesy — each with meaning, on/kun readings and example words. 10 free · 57 cards in the app Part 1 One hundred words for N3 (66 from the N3 list, the rest marked with their level): verb pairs, everyday and する-verbs, people, work and daily life, adjectives and adverbs, each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, a note where it helps and, on most cards, its pitch accent. 10 free · 100 cards in the app Part 2 The next 82 N3 words by frequency (crime and the police, people and forms of address, time words, common prefixes and suffixes, and small everyday words), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words, and a note where it helps. 10 free · 82 cards in the app Part 3 The next 87 N3 words by frequency (people, society and the law, feelings and memory, everyday する-verbs, time words and set phrases), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words, and a note where it helps. 10 free · 87 cards in the app Part 4 The next 84 N3 words by frequency (space and the body, law and conflict, work and feelings, travel, media and key adverbs), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words, and a note where it helps. 10 free · 84 cards in the app Part 5 The next 86 N3 words by frequency (feelings and effort, body and health, people and royalty, society and rules, time words and formal する-verbs), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words, and a note where it helps. 10 free · 86 cards in the app Part 6 The next 87 N3 words by frequency (decisions and plans, work and money, feelings and judgement, change, people, places and abstract nouns), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words, and a note where it helps. 10 free · 87 cards in the app Part 7 The next 85 N3 words by frequency (health, work and business, society and the news, travel and nature, feelings and opinions), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words, and a note where it helps. 10 free · 85 cards in the app Part 8 The next 87 N3 words by frequency (art and performance, feelings, elections and society, places, materials and things around the house), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words, and a note where it helps. 10 free · 87 cards in the app Part 9 The next 87 N3 words by frequency (people and roles, health, travel and transport, work and money, society and sport, time, thinking and judgement), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words, and a note where it helps. 10 free · 87 cards in the app Part 10 The next 87 N3 words by frequency (health and the body, travel and nature, home life, work and money, society and government, feelings and judgement), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words, and a note where it helps. 10 free · 87 cards in the app Part 11 The next 86 N3 words by frequency (people and friendship, home and things, nature and the land, work and money, society and politics, feelings and judgement), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words, and a note where it helps. 10 free · 86 cards in the app Part 12 The next 86 N3 words by frequency (people and society, the body, home and food, work and money, study and writing, feelings and character, and adverbs such as ぴったり and さっぱり), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words, and a note where it helps. 10 free · 86 cards in the app Part 13 The next 87 N3 words by frequency (people and roles, study and the media, work and money, home and things, nature and travel, sport and culture, abstract ideas), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words, and a note where it helps. 10 free · 87 cards in the app Part 14 The next 87 N3 words by frequency (travel and nature, society, sport and the arts, home and food, health, work and money, study and reading, judgement), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words, and a note where it helps. 10 free · 87 cards in the app Part 15 The next 86 N3 words by frequency (food and the home, health, travel and weather, work and money, school and print, society, change, thinking and judgement), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words, and a note where it helps. 10 free · 86 cards in the app Part 16 The next 85 N3 words by frequency (people and family, health, home and things, nature and the city, work and money, school, society and the arts, feelings and character), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words and a note where it helps. 10 free · 85 cards in the app Part 17 The next 86 N3 words by frequency (home, food and things, nature and the outdoors, work, money and farming, school, culture and sport, time and order, and adverbs), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words, and a note where it helps. 10 free · 86 cards in the app Part 18 The next 86 N3 words by frequency (school and language, travel and nature, home and food, work and money, society and events, feelings and judgement), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words and a note where it helps. 10 free · 86 cards in the app Part 19 The next 87 N3 words by frequency (school and learning, money and prices, nature and the seasons, home and things, people, health, society and tradition, and small words such as だって and ばったり), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, pitch accent on most cards and a note where it helps. 10 free · 87 cards in the app Part 20 The next 86 N3 words: 19 by frequency, then 67 in kana order (verbs and their partners, food and the kitchen, health, feelings, time words, study and the arts, adverbs and set phrases), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, pitch accent on most cards and a note where it helps. 10 free · 86 cards in the app Part 21 The next 87 N3 words, in kana order (verbs of handling, feeling and change, homophones such as おさめる and かえる, health, home life, people and the arts), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words and a note where it helps. 10 free · 87 cards in the app Part 22 The next 86 N3 words, in kana order (verb pairs and homophones such as さす and さめる, crossing and exceeding, people and names, grammar words, nature and the seasons, apologies and small words), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, pitch accent on most cards and a note where it helps. 10 free · 86 cards in the app Part 23 The next 85 N3 words, in kana order (pairs of verbs, everyday actions, cooking and clothes, nature and weather, work, communication, feelings and connectives), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words and a note where it helps. 10 free · 85 cards in the app Part 24 The next 87 N3 words, in kana order (mostly verbs, with transitive and intransitive pairs and the kanji that tell homophones apart, plus set phrases and small words), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words and a note where it helps. 10 free · 87 cards in the app Part 25 The last 73 N3 words of the list, in kana order (verb pairs such as ぶつかる and ぶつける, everyday and kitchen verbs, the body, people, study and small words such as めったに and もしかすると), each in an original N3 sentence with its translation, the pitch accent for most words and a note where it helps. 10 free · 73 cards in the app Grammar Patterns Sixty grammar points commonly listed for N3 — purpose and cause, the わけ family, concession, さえ and other emphasis, によって and relation words, time patterns, tendencies, hearsay, regret and wishes — each with meaning, connection form and an original example. 10 free · 60 cards in the app

Drills · 6 decks · 542 cards

Short answers and cloze blanks for the facts you simply have to know cold.

In Context, Part 1 Ninety N3 sentences, each blanking one word from Vocabulary Parts 1–4 so you produce it from context, with the English gloss as the hint. 8 free · 90 cards in the app In Context, Part 2 Ninety N3 sentences, each blanking one word from Vocabulary Parts 5–8 so you produce it from context, with the English gloss as the hint. 8 free · 90 cards in the app In Context, Part 3 Ninety-two N3 sentences, each blanking one word from Vocabulary Parts 9–12 so you produce it from context, with the English gloss as the hint. 8 free · 92 cards in the app In Context, Part 4 Ninety N3 sentences, each blanking one word from Vocabulary Parts 13–16 so you produce it from context, with the English gloss as the hint. 8 free · 90 cards in the app In Context, Part 5 Eighty-nine N3 sentences, each blanking one word from Vocabulary Parts 17–20 so you produce it from context, with the English gloss as the hint. 8 free · 89 cards in the app In Context, Part 6 Ninety-one N3 sentences, each blanking one word from Vocabulary Parts 21–25 so you produce it from context, with the English gloss as the hint. 8 free · 91 cards in the app

Practice · 1 deck · 50 questions

Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.

Practice Questions Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, on N3 kanji readings and spellings, words in context, grammar forms, sentence order and short reading passages. 6 free · 50 questions in the app

Cloze decks have one or more blanks per sentence; the app makes one card per blank.

Study guide

Topics covered

The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.

  • Feelings & Mind 27
  • Family & People 25
  • Body & Health 158
  • Home & Daily Life 274
  • Weather & Nature 17
  • Travel & Movement 29
  • Work & Money 192
  • Study & Communication 227
  • Action Verbs 47
  • Change & Results 29
  • Qualities & States 50
  • Society & Law 33
  • Transitive & Intransitive Pairs 136
  • Everyday Verbs 143
  • する-verbs 91
  • People & Relationships 170
  • Society & Events 259
  • Feelings & Thinking 194
  • Abstract Nouns 233
  • Describing Words 122
  • Adverbs & Small Words 201
  • Town · Travel & Nature 292
  • Time & Change 140
  • Purpose & Cause 7
  • Advice & Obligation 4
  • Judgement & Certainty 9
  • Contrast & Concession 9
  • Emphasis & Limits 10
  • Topic & Relation 7
  • Time & Sequence 8
  • Tendency & Change 4
  • Hearsay & Quoting 3
  • Wishes & Regret 3
  • Honorific & Humble 2
  • State & Manner 3

A study plan

  • 113 new cards a day covers everything in a month, leaving the last weeks for review.
  • 57 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.
  • 38 new cards a day covers everything in three months, leaving the last weeks for review.

Willys schedules reviews for you (FSRS spaced repetition), so the daily number above is only for new cards; reviews of what you have learned come back on their own. Study a topic's cards right after you meet it in class, suspend topics you have not reached yet, and use the app's quiz mode in the final two weeks.

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About these cards

Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.

Checked against:

  • Readings and meanings checked against the jōyō kanji table (Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, 2010) and KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0); example words against JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0); reference only, no text copied.
  • Kanji selection follows the set commonly listed for JLPT N3 and excludes every kanji in the JLPT N5 and N4 kanji decks; there is no official JLPT kanji list since 2010.
  • Kanji selection follows the set commonly listed for JLPT N3 and excludes every kanji in the JLPT N5 and N4 kanji decks and in Part 1; there is no official JLPT kanji list since 2010.
  • Kanji selection follows the set commonly listed for JLPT N3, here the N3 kanji in kanji-data (davidluzgouveia/kanji-data, MIT), and excludes every kanji in the JLPT N5 and N4 kanji decks and in Parts 1–2; there is no official JLPT kanji list since 2010.
  • Kanji selection follows the set commonly listed for JLPT N3, here the N3 kanji in kanji-data (davidluzgouveia/kanji-data, MIT), and excludes every kanji in the JLPT N5 and N4 kanji decks and in the earlier N3 kanji decks; there is no official JLPT kanji list since 2010.
  • Kanji selection follows the set commonly listed for JLPT N3: the N3 kanji in kanji-data (davidluzgouveia/kanji-data, MIT), excluding every kanji in the JLPT N5 and N4 kanji decks and in the earlier N3 kanji decks; there is no official JLPT kanji list since 2010.
  • Word selection follows vocabulary commonly taught for JLPT N3 (no official list exists since 2010). 66 of the 100 headwords are on the JLPT N3 vocabulary list compiled by Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk, CC BY); each of the other 34 gives its level on the same compiler's N5, N4, N2 or N1 list in a JLPT list line on its back. The deck excludes every word in the JLPT N4 Vocabulary — Core Words deck and the AP Japanese deck (26 words also appear in the N4 and N5 topic vocabulary decks, which were added later); meanings, kanji spellings, verb groups and adjective types checked against JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
  • Pitch-accent positions checked against the Kanjium accent data (CC BY-SA 4.0); reference only.
  • Word selection follows the JLPT N3 vocabulary list compiled by Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk, CC BY); there is no official JLPT list since 2010. Order by frequency in the OpenSubtitles 2016 Japanese word list (hermitdave/FrequencyWords). Meanings, kanji spellings and verb groups checked against JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
  • Word selection follows the JLPT N3 vocabulary list compiled by Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk, CC BY); there is no official JLPT list since 2010. Order by frequency in the OpenSubtitles 2016 Japanese word list (hermitdave/FrequencyWords) for the words it ranks under the N3 list's spellings; the rest in kana order. Meanings, kanji spellings and verb groups checked against JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
  • Word selection follows the JLPT N3 vocabulary list compiled by Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk, CC BY); there is no official JLPT list since 2010. The OpenSubtitles 2016 Japanese word list (hermitdave/FrequencyWords), which orders the earlier parts, does not rank these words under the N3 list's spellings, so they follow in kana order. Meanings, kanji spellings and verb groups checked against JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
  • Word selection follows the JLPT N3 vocabulary list compiled by Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk, CC BY); there is no official JLPT list since 2010. The OpenSubtitles 2016 Japanese word list (hermitdave/FrequencyWords), which orders the earlier parts, does not rank these words under the N3 list's spellings (except よろしく), so they follow in kana order. Meanings, kanji spellings and verb groups checked against JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
  • Grammar points follow the patterns commonly listed for JLPT N3 (no official list exists since 2010) and exclude points covered in the JLPT N5 and N4 grammar decks; rules checked against Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese Grammar (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0), JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Kotobank (デジタル大辞泉, 精選版 日本国語大辞典). Reference only; all example sentences are original.
  • Answers are headwords of this folder's N3 vocabulary decks (Parts 1–4). Their word selection follows the JLPT N3 vocabulary list compiled by Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk, CC BY); a few are words from the same compiler's N4, N2 or N1 lists, as their vocabulary cards state, and there is no official JLPT list since 2010. All sentences are original.
  • Answers are headwords of this folder's N3 vocabulary decks; word selection follows the JLPT N3 vocabulary list compiled by Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk, CC BY). All sentences are original.
  • Kanji readings checked against the jōyō kanji table (Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, 2010) and KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0); vocabulary against JMdict (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0); grammar against Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese Grammar (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) and デジタル大辞泉 (Kotobank). Reference only; no text copied.
  • Kanji, vocabulary and grammar follow the sets commonly listed for JLPT N3 (no official list exists since 2010); every tested word is taught in this folder's study decks, though two target kanji (結, 骨) have no kanji card of their own and appear only inside words such as 結果 and 骨折.

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