# Kotoba

> Kotoba (kotoba.lt) is a free two-way dictionary, Japanese–Lithuanian and Lithuanian–Japanese, that recognises inflected forms in both languages. Japanese→Lithuanian: 22,628 Japanese entries with 49,535 spellings and readings, pitch accent, Lithuanian definitions, 7,578 conjugation tables, 15,088 example sentences with Lithuanian translations and 2,521 kanji with Lithuanian meanings. Lithuanian→Japanese: 87,473 Lithuanian words, searchable by any of their 2,429,441 inflected forms, and 19,254 Lithuanian phrases with Japanese translations.

It is for Lithuanian speakers learning Japanese and Japanese speakers learning Lithuanian.

kotoba.lt has a Lithuanian interface and ja.kotoba.lt a Japanese one, with the same paths on both.

Every page listed here, and every entry, word and phrase page, has a markdown version at its URL with `.md` appended, as in https://kotoba.lt/jp/1358280/食べる.md (`index.md` for a URL ending in `/`). The page's own URL serves the same markdown to requests with `Accept: text/markdown`.

## Features

- Search: one box takes Japanese (kanji or kana), romaji or Lithuanian. Conjugated Japanese is traced back to its dictionary form: 食べさせられました (“was made to eat”) finds [食べる](https://kotoba.lt/jp/1358280/食べる?furigana=true). Any inflected Lithuanian form, with or without diacritics, finds its word: valgėme (“we ate”) finds [valgyti](https://kotoba.lt/lt/93972/valgyti?furigana=true).
- Lithuanian→Japanese index: 87,473 Lithuanian words with stress, accent class, gender, principal parts for verbs and full inflection tables; search resolves 2,429,441 inflected forms to them.
- Phrases: 19,254 Lithuanian phrases and patterns, such as “eiti kartu” and “tarp … ir”, each on its own page with its Japanese translations.
- Entries: 22,628 Japanese words with 49,535 spellings and readings, the Tokyo pitch accent of most readings, Lithuanian definitions, the kanji they are written with, and examples.
- Pitch accent: an entry's markdown gives it after the reading as the downstep in brackets, as in たべる [2]: [0] is flat (heiban), [1] falls after the first mora, [n] after the nth, and [0, 3] lists a word said both ways, the usual first.
- Form tools: type a word in any form and get every form of it. https://kotoba.lt/kaityba?z={word} for Lithuanian nouns, adjectives and verbs (cases, degrees, tenses and participles, with stress); https://kotoba.lt/formos?z={word} for Japanese verbs and adjectives, in kanji, kana or romaji.
- Reference pages: the Lithuanian alphabet, stress and inflection, and the kana and Japanese conjugation, each with its rules, example words linked to their entries and a printable A4 sheet. Japanese words on them carry their reading, in parentheses in the markdown: 書く（かく）.
- Conjugation tables: 7,578 Japanese verbs and adjectives, with polite, negative, past, te-form, potential, passive, causative and more.
- Examples: 15,088 Japanese example sentences with Lithuanian translations.
- Kanji: 2,521 kanji with Lithuanian meanings and their on and kun readings.
- Japanese interface: ja.kotoba.lt has every page in Japanese, for Japanese speakers looking up Lithuanian.

Figures as of October 2026.

## Indexes

- [Japoniškų žodžių rodyklė](https://kotoba.lt/jp/rodykle.md?furigana=true): Japanese entries by kana
- [Lietuviškų žodžių rodyklė](https://kotoba.lt/lt/rodykle.md?furigana=true): Lithuanian words by letter

## Lithuanian reference

- [Lietuvių kalbos abėcėlė](https://kotoba.lt/abecele.md?furigana=true): the Lithuanian alphabet, each letter's name, sound and common words
- [Lietuvių kalbos kirčiavimas](https://kotoba.lt/kirciavimas.md?furigana=true): Lithuanian stress and tone, the accent classes, and stress in verbs and adjectives
- [Abėcėlės atmintinė](https://kotoba.lt/abecele/atmintine.md?furigana=true): the alphabet on one printable A4 sheet
- [Kirčiavimo atmintinė](https://kotoba.lt/kirciavimas/atmintine.md?furigana=true): stress on one printable A4 card

## Inflection

- [Kaityba](https://kotoba.lt/kaityba.md?furigana=true): Lithuanian inflection: finds a word's page by its part of speech; every form of a word at https://kotoba.lt/kaityba?z={word}
- [Daiktavardžių linksniavimas](https://kotoba.lt/kaityba/daiktavardziai.md?furigana=true): Lithuanian noun declension: the declensions, all cases in both numbers, and the irregular nouns; every form of a word at https://kotoba.lt/kaityba/daiktavardziai?z={word}
- [Būdvardžių linksniavimas ir laipsniavimas](https://kotoba.lt/kaityba/budvardziai.md?furigana=true): Lithuanian adjectives: the declension types, degrees, definite forms and adverbs; every form of a word at https://kotoba.lt/kaityba/budvardziai?z={word}
- [Veiksmažodžių asmenavimas](https://kotoba.lt/kaityba/veiksmazodziai.md?furigana=true): Lithuanian verb conjugation: the principal parts and the tenses, moods and participles built from them; every form of a word at https://kotoba.lt/kaityba/veiksmazodziai?z={word}
- [Daiktavardžių linksniavimo lentelė](https://kotoba.lt/kaityba/daiktavardziai/atmintine.md?furigana=true): Lithuanian noun declension: the declensions, all cases in both numbers, and the irregular nouns, on one printable A4 sheet
- [Būdvardžių linksniavimo lentelė](https://kotoba.lt/kaityba/budvardziai/atmintine.md?furigana=true): Lithuanian adjectives: the declension types, degrees, definite forms and adverbs, on one printable A4 sheet
- [Veiksmažodžių asmenavimo lentelė](https://kotoba.lt/kaityba/veiksmazodziai/atmintine.md?furigana=true): Lithuanian verb conjugation: the principal parts and the tenses, moods and participles built from them, on one printable A4 sheet

## Japanese reference

- [Hiragana ir katakana](https://kotoba.lt/kana.md?furigana=true): hiragana, katakana and how Japanese sounds: morae, long vowels, geminates, ん, devoicing, pitch accent, minimal pairs
- [Hiragana](https://kotoba.lt/kana/hiragana.md?furigana=true): the full hiragana chart with romaji, IPA, the nearest Lithuanian spelling and example words for every kana
- [Katakana](https://kotoba.lt/kana/katakana.md?furigana=true): the full katakana chart, with the loanword sounds (ファ, ティ, ウェ) and ー, and loanword examples
- [Žodžių formos](https://kotoba.lt/formos.md?furigana=true): finds the conjugation page of any Japanese verb or adjective, given in kanji, kana or romaji
- [Veiksmažodžių formos](https://kotoba.lt/formos/veiksmazodziai.md?furigana=true): Japanese verb conjugation: groups, the te-form sound changes, irregular verbs and every form
- [Būdvardžių formos](https://kotoba.lt/formos/budvardziai.md?furigana=true): i- and na-adjective forms
- [Hiragana A4](https://kotoba.lt/kana/hiragana/atmintine.md?furigana=true): the hiragana chart on one printable A4 page, with a word for each kana
- [Katakana A4](https://kotoba.lt/kana/katakana/atmintine.md?furigana=true): the katakana chart on one printable A4 page, with the loanword sounds
- [Veiksmažodžių formos A4](https://kotoba.lt/formos/veiksmazodziai/atmintine.md?furigana=true): verb groups, endings by gojūon row, te-form changes and every form of 書く（かく）, 食べる（たべる）, する and 来る（くる） on one A4 page
- [Būdvardžių formos A4](https://kotoba.lt/formos/budvardziai/atmintine.md?furigana=true): i- and na-adjective forms side by side, with いい, on one A4 page
- https://kotoba.lt/formos?z={word}: every form of a Japanese verb or adjective given in kanji, kana or romaji, in any form (食べる（たべる）, tabemashita, 高くない（たかくない）); also on /formos/veiksmazodziai?z={word} and /formos/budvardziai?z={word}

## Practice

- [Pratybos](https://kotoba.lt/pratybos.md?furigana=true): typing drills on the dictionary's words; the page checks each answer and brings missed ones back
- [Japonų kalbos pratybos](https://kotoba.lt/pratybos/japonu-kalba.md?furigana=true): the Japanese drills
- [Hiragana ir katakana](https://kotoba.lt/pratybos/hiragana-katakana.md?furigana=true): hiragana and katakana: a kana and its romaji, typed (any common romanization), or the romaji and the kana picked among lookalikes; by chart row, basic, dakuten, yōon and katakana's loanword sounds
- [Skaičiai ir skaitvardžiai](https://kotoba.lt/pratybos/japonu-skaiciai.md?furigana=true): Japanese numbers, counters with their sound changes (いっぽん, さんぼん, ろっぴゃく), days of the month (ついたち, ふつか), months and clock time (よじ, くじ, じゅっぷん); the prompt is a number and the thing counted in Lithuanian, the answer typed in kana or written in kanji or digits
- [Žodžiai](https://kotoba.lt/pratybos/japonu-zodziai.md?furigana=true): Japanese words by JLPT level from their Lithuanian meaning: the reader types the word in kana or kanji, romaji turned into kana; words sharing the meaning are taken too
- [Veiksmažodžių ir būdvardžių formos](https://kotoba.lt/pratybos/japonu-formos.md?furigana=true): Japanese verb and adjective forms (polite, negative, past, te, conditional, potential, passive, causative, volitional, imperative, desire), words by JLPT level, nouns taking する when asked for; answers in kana or kanji, any of the word's spellings, romaji turned into kana
- [Kirtis](https://kotoba.lt/pratybos/japonu-kirtis.md?furigana=true): Tokyo pitch accent of words by JLPT level: the reader taps the mora after which the pitch falls, or no fall (heiban); the answer is drawn as a pitch contour
- [Lietuvių kalbos pratybos](https://kotoba.lt/pratybos/lietuviu-kalba.md?furigana=true): the Lithuanian drills
- [Lietuviški žodžiai](https://kotoba.lt/pratybos/zodziai.md?furigana=true): Lithuanian vocabulary: a Japanese word, and the Lithuanian for it typed; every common Lithuanian word that translates it is accepted
- [Daiktavardžių giminė](https://kotoba.lt/pratybos/daiktavardziu-gimine.md?furigana=true): Lithuanian noun gender: a noun with its Japanese translation, masculine or feminine, picked with a tap or a key; the nouns can be narrowed by ending, such as -is and -uo, where the ending doesn't tell
- [Daiktavardžių linksniai](https://kotoba.lt/pratybos/daiktavardziu-linksniai.md?furigana=true): Lithuanian noun declension: a common noun with its Japanese translation, and every case in both numbers; answers with or without stress marks, without diacritics counted as almost right
- [Būdvardžių linksniai](https://kotoba.lt/pratybos/budvardziu-linksniai.md?furigana=true): Lithuanian adjective agreement: an adjective with its Japanese translation, in either gender and number and every case, and its comparative and superlative
- [Veiksmažodžių asmenavimas](https://kotoba.lt/pratybos/veiksmazodziu-asmenavimas.md?furigana=true): Lithuanian verb conjugation: an infinitive with its Japanese translation, and a person in the present, past, past frequentative, future, conditional or imperative; or back from a form to the infinitive
- [Skaitvardžiai](https://kotoba.lt/pratybos/skaitvardziai.md?furigana=true): Lithuanian numbers with nouns, the counterpart of Japanese counters: a number in digits and a noun with its Japanese translation, said together in the nominative or the accusative (3 knyga → trys knygos, 10 knyga → dešimt knygų)
- [Kirčiavimas](https://kotoba.lt/pratybos/kirciavimas.md?furigana=true): Lithuanian stress: a word with its Japanese translation, cut into syllables; the reader taps the stressed syllable, and optionally picks the stress mark (acute, circumflex or grave) written on it; stress from Lithuanian dictionaries

## Search

- https://kotoba.lt/jp/?q={query}: Japanese entries, searched in Japanese, romaji or Lithuanian, inflected forms included
- https://kotoba.lt/lt/?q={query}: Lithuanian words and phrases, searched in Lithuanian or Japanese, inflected forms included

## API

- [API docs](https://kotoba.lt/api.md?furigana=true): a public JSON API to Kotoba's Japanese–Lithuanian dictionary
- [OpenAPI description](https://kotoba.lt/api/openapi.json?furigana=true): every endpoint, its parameters and its answers
- [API catalog](https://kotoba.lt/.well-known/api-catalog?furigana=true): the RFC 9727 catalog linking the above and the status endpoint

## Optional

- [Apie žodyną](https://kotoba.lt/apie.md?furigana=true): about the dictionary
- [Sitemap](https://kotoba.lt/sitemap.xml?furigana=true): every entry and word page

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