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- desu
- shu
- getsu
- nen
- hima desu
- kirei desu
- joozu desu
- mada
- otoko no hito
- onna no hito
- to be
- week
- month
- year
- to be free
- to be nice
- to be good at
- not yet
- man
- woman
- Yamada-san no denwa.
- Ms. Yamada's phone.
- Dare no kami.
- Whose paper?
- Watashi no uchi.
- My house.
- America-jin.
- An american.
- Gaijin.
- A foreigner.
- Doitsu-jin.
- A German.
- Nihon-jin.
- A Japanese.
- Anata wa Eigo o wakarimasu ka.
- Do you understand English?
- Nanigo o hanshimasu ka.
- What language do you speak?
- Anata no kuni wa nani desu ka.
- What is your country?
- ni
- ichi=one;ni=two;san=three; How do you say two?
- ichi
- ichi=one;ni=two;san=three; How do you say one?
- zero
- ichi=one;ni=two;san=three;zero=zero; How do you say zero?
- yon
- zero=zero;san=three;yon=four; How do you say four?
- POSSESSION
- We use the word `no' to show possession. The word `no' could be translated
- to be `of'. In Japanese we say `book of me' rather than `my book'. For
- example watashi no hon = my book
- anata no teepu = your tape
- Nationalities
- To say `American' we use the word `Amerika-jin'. A Japanese person is a
- Nihon-jin. A German is a Doitsu-jin. A gai-jin is a foreigner. You will
- hear this word often if you go to Japan. The word `kuni' means country.
- `Nan-jin' means `what nationality?'.
- Nihon is Japan. Amerika is the USA. Doitsu is Germany. Furansu is France.
- Chuugoku means China. To say the languages that correspond to these
- countries we merely add `go' onto the end. Doitsu-go = German
- Eigo = English language and nanigo = what language?
-
- In Japanese there are many different ways to count things depending upon
- their shape. For example `two flat things' uses a different word for `two'
- than `two round things'. However a short stay in Japan doesn't require
- mastery in this area. We will learn to count with numbers. This is the
- form that a telephone number or an account number would use.
-