Navajo — top 275 words
High-frequency vocabulary for English speakers. Reveal each card, then rate your recall — the schedule adapts (SM-2) and is stored on your device.
Sources: Mixed sources — 275 rows · 2 sources · no MT recorded
Some deck-level provenance is recorded, but its tier or row-level mapping is incomplete. The recorded metadata explicitly reports no machine translation. See the bibliography.
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| # | Navajo | English |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hello / It is good — the all-purpose greeting (yah-AH-tay) | |
| 2 | Thank you | |
| 3 | Goodbye (informal) | |
| 4 | Good morning | |
| 5 | Good afternoon | |
| 6 | Beauty / harmony / balance — the central concept of Navajo philosophy | |
| 7 | The People — how Navajo people refer to themselves | |
| 8 | Language / speech (Diné bizaad = the Navajo language) | |
| 9 | In a beautiful / harmonious way (adverbial form of hózhó) | |
| 10 | Beautiful / it is good-looking | |
| 11 | I / me (first person singular) | |
| 12 | We / us (first person plural) | |
| 13 | Anglo / white person — from Spanish 'Americano' | |
| 14 | Man / Mr. (respected form of address) | |
| 15 | Woman | |
| 16 | Water — high tone on the ó is essential | |
| 17 | Canyon | |
| 18 | Black Mountain (type of place name) | |
| 19 | Earth / ground / the land | |
| 20 | Sky / the blue above | |
| 21 | One | |
| 22 | Two | |
| 23 | Three | |
| 24 | Four | |
| 25 | Five | |
| 26 | Very / a lot / extremely | |
| 27 | Just / simply / right (emphatic particle) | |
| 28 | Not … (negation — the negative wraps the predicate) | |
| 29 | Where | |
| 30 | What | |
| 31 | I am walking (going on foot, away from speaker) | |
| 32 | I am reading / I am studying | |
| 33 | I am working | |
| 34 | There is / it exists (existential) | |
| 35 | There is not / it does not exist | |
| 36 | ł = voiceless lateral fricative, like Welsh 'll' — a key Navajo sound | |
| 37 | The apostrophe marks a glottal stop — a real consonant in Navajo | |
| 38 | Accent mark = high tone — tó (water) vs to (a different word entirely) | |
| 39 | Ogonek = nasalized vowel — tą́ means something different from ta | |
| 40 | Ejective lateral affricate — one of Navajo's most challenging sounds | |
| 41 | welcome | |
| 42 | elder woman, elderly woman | |
| 43 | boy, lad | |
| 44 | girl | |
| 45 | baby | |
| 46 | friend (chiefly of the same sex) | |
| 47 | teacher | |
| 48 | student, pupil | |
| 49 | mother | |
| 50 | father | |
| 51 | younger brother, little brother | |
| 52 | younger sister | |
| 53 | his son | |
| 54 | daughter (of a man) | |
| 55 | one’s husband | |
| 56 | one’s wife | |
| 57 | maternal grandmother, as well as any of her sisters… | |
| 58 | maternal grandfather, as well as any of his brothers… | |
| 59 | maternal uncle | |
| 60 | twin(s), twin siblings | |
| 61 | you all | |
| 62 | that, that one | |
| 63 | one | |
| 64 | six | |
| 65 | seven | |
| 66 | eight | |
| 67 | nine | |
| 68 | ten | |
| 69 | eleven | |
| 70 | twelve | |
| 71 | twenty | |
| 72 | thirty | |
| 73 | hundred | |
| 74 | one thousand | |
| 75 | first | |
| 76 | body | |
| 77 | his/her/its/their head | |
| 78 | face | |
| 79 | eye | |
| 80 | ear (external) | |
| 81 | nose | |
| 82 | mouth | |
| 83 | teeth, tooth | |
| 84 | tongue | |
| 85 | lip | |
| 86 | neck | |
| 87 | arm, someone’s arm | |
| 88 | hand | |
| 89 | finger | |
| 90 | stomach | |
| 91 | belly, abdomen | |
| 92 | his/her back | |
| 93 | leg | |
| 94 | knee | |
| 95 | foot, feet | |
| 96 | bone(s) | |
| 97 | blood | |
| 98 | heart | |
| 99 | liver | |
| 100 | food, groceries, provisions (of food) | |
| 101 | milk | |
| 102 | bread (yeast bread) | |
| 103 | meat, flesh | |
| 104 | fish | |
| 105 | egg | |
| 106 | salt | |
| 107 | sugar | |
| 108 | honey | |
| 109 | rice | |
| 110 | corn, maize | |
| 111 | potato | |
| 112 | banana | |
| 113 | orange (fruit) | |
| 114 | apple | |
| 115 | tomato | |
| 116 | onion | |
| 117 | tea, especially Navajo tea (Thelesperma ssp.), wild tea | |
| 118 | coffee | |
| 119 | beer | |
| 120 | wine | |
| 121 | flour | |
| 122 | peanut | |
| 123 | dog | |
| 124 | cat | |
| 125 | bull | |
| 126 | goat | |
| 127 | sheep (animal) | |
| 128 | pig, hog | |
| 129 | horse | |
| 130 | donkey, burro | |
| 131 | chicken | |
| 132 | rooster | |
| 133 | bird | |
| 134 | mouse | |
| 135 | rat, pack rat | |
| 136 | rabbit | |
| 137 | elephant | |
| 138 | zebra | |
| 139 | rhinoceros | |
| 140 | crocodile | |
| 141 | monkey | |
| 142 | baboon | |
| 143 | snake, serpent | |
| 144 | frog | |
| 145 | lizard | |
| 146 | turtle, tortoise | |
| 147 | turtle, tortoise | |
| 148 | insect | |
| 149 | mosquito (insect) | |
| 150 | bee, honey bee | |
| 151 | red ant (Myrmica rubra) | |
| 152 | spider | |
| 153 | butterfly | |
| 154 | locust | |
| 155 | insect, bug, maggot, worm | |
| 156 | louse, tick, mite, flea | |
| 157 | bear (animal) | |
| 158 | wolf, grey wolf | |
| 159 | red fox, kit fox, fox | |
| 160 | deer | |
| 161 | eagle | |
| 162 | owl | |
| 163 | crow | |
| 164 | Sun, sun | |
| 165 | moon | |
| 166 | star (celestial body) | |
| 167 | sky | |
| 168 | cloud, clouds, cloudy | |
| 169 | rain, shower | |
| 170 | air, breeze, wind | |
| 171 | thunder, lightning | |
| 172 | lightning | |
| 173 | fire | |
| 174 | smoke | |
| 175 | ground, earth, world | |
| 176 | dirt, dust, soil, ashes | |
| 177 | sand | |
| 178 | rock, stone, boulder | |
| 179 | mountain | |
| 180 | hill | |
| 181 | valley | |
| 182 | river | |
| 183 | lake | |
| 184 | ocean, sea, large lake | |
| 185 | upright pole, tree | |
| 186 | forest, woods | |
| 187 | grass | |
| 188 | leaf, leaves | |
| 189 | flower | |
| 190 | root | |
| 191 | wood, timber | |
| 192 | cornfield, field, farm | |
| 193 | desert | |
| 194 | light | |
| 195 | darkness | |
| 196 | shade, shadow | |
| 197 | house, cabin, building | |
| 198 | dwelling, home, hogan | |
| 199 | door | |
| 200 | glass, window, pane | |
| 201 | roof | |
| 202 | bed | |
| 203 | chair, seat, bench | |
| 204 | table, dinner table | |
| 205 | pot, dish, bowl, kettle, pan, jar | |
| 206 | plate, dish | |
| 207 | cup (with no handle) | |
| 208 | spoon | |
| 209 | knife, blade, bayonet | |
| 210 | basket | |
| 211 | wooden box, box, trunk | |
| 212 | blanket | |
| 213 | clothing, clothes, garment(s), shirt(s) | |
| 214 | shirt | |
| 215 | dress (woman's garment) | |
| 216 | shoe, footwear | |
| 217 | hat, cap, scarf | |
| 218 | money | |
| 219 | automobile, car, truck, vehicle | |
| 220 | bicycle, bike | |
| 221 | boat | |
| 222 | airplane | |
| 223 | bow (weapon) | |
| 224 | arrow | |
| 225 | axe | |
| 226 | rope, cord, twine, string | |
| 227 | awl, needle (may refer to a hypodermic needle, a cartridge… | |
| 228 | city, town | |
| 229 | city | |
| 230 | school | |
| 231 | church | |
| 232 | hospital | |
| 233 | bridge | |
| 234 | night | |
| 235 | afternoon | |
| 236 | noon | |
| 237 | week | |
| 238 | year | |
| 239 | hour | |
| 240 | never | |
| 241 | again, once more | |
| 242 | summer | |
| 243 | winter | |
| 244 | he/she/it is red | |
| 245 | it is black | |
| 246 | it is white | |
| 247 | he/she/it is turquoise, green, blue, purple | |
| 248 | it is yellow | |
| 249 | it is gray | |
| 250 | it is new, recent, young, fresh | |
| 251 | old one | |
| 252 | coldness, cold | |
| 253 | he/she/it is dry, dried up, withered | |
| 254 | it got full; it filled up | |
| 255 | to be dirty | |
| 256 | it is sweet | |
| 257 | it is hard, difficult (mentally) | |
| 258 | he/she lives, is alive | |
| 259 | to have, possess | |
| 260 | to eat | |
| 261 | to learn, to train, to receive education | |
| 262 | to give it (a burden, pack, or load) | |
| 263 | work | |
| 264 | to use it, make use of it | |
| 265 | name | |
| 266 | word | |
| 267 | story, narrative, legend | |
| 268 | song | |
| 269 | life, living | |
| 270 | death | |
| 271 | war, enmity, discord | |
| 272 | god, deity | |
| 273 | dream (a dream during slumber, whether good or bad) | |
| 274 | medicine, drug, pharmaceutical | |
| 275 | number |