Teach Youself lesson 2
Terms
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- konnichi wa?
- hello, good day
- totemo
- when put before a positive adjective means "very"
- demo
- but,however (at the beginning of a sentence)
- natsu
- summer
- atsui
- hot
- o-kage-sama de
- thanks for asking
- genki na
- healthy, well
- resutoran
- restaurant (specializing in Western quizine)
- to(line).i
- far
- ano [noun]
- that [noun] (over there)
- taka.i
- high
- biru
- building
- [noun] no tanari
- next to, neighboring
- ryori
- cooking, cuisine
- e(line)
- yes (less formal than hai)
- ja/ja(line)/de wa, .....
- (at the beggining of a sentence) well then! if that's so....
- ikaga
- how?
- [noun] wa ikaga desu ka?
- how about/would you like [noun]?
- asoko
- means "that place over there" in front of a place
- oishi.i
- delicious;good (of restaurants etc.
- [noun]-ya
- shop etc. dealing proffessionally in [noun]
- ryo(line)ri(line)ya
- eating place, restaurant
- daijo(line)bu na
- all right
- amari [negative]
- [not] very
- kono [noun]
- this [noun]
- hen na
- strange
- mono
- thing
- tako
- octopus
- o-tearai
- toilet (polite)
- sugu
- immediatly/just
- soko
- means "that" in front of a place
- atataka.i
- warm
- samu.i
- (atmospheric) cold
- tsumeta.i
- cold (to the touch/emotionally)
- o(l)ki.i
- big
- chiisa.i
- small
- waka.i
- young (teenagers, adults)
- atarashi
- new
- furu.i
- old (not age wise)
- i.i
- good, all right
- waru.i
- bad
- haya.i
- quick/early
- oso.i
- slow/late
- benri na
- convenient/usefull
- shizuka na
- quiet/peacefull
- shinsetsu na
- kind
- yu(l)mei na
- famous
- kirei na
- pretty, clean neat
- taisetsu na
- important
- taihen na
- serious/awefull
- hansamu na
- handsome
- taihen
- more formal way of saying "very" (in front of a positive adjective)
- amari
- "very" in front of a negative adjective
- kono
- means "this" when in fron of a noun
- sono
- means "that" when in front of a noun
- ano
- means "that over there" in front of a noun
- koko
- means "this" in front of a place
- hito
- person
- kochira, sochira, achira and dochira?
- used as equivalent of koko etc. or to mean" this way/that way"
- tonari
- next too
- chikaku
- nearby
- mae
- in front
- naka
- inside
- ushiro
- back/behind
- ura
- reverse, other side, behind (not of people though)
- ue
- on top/above
- shita
- underneath
- o-kane
- money (polite)
- o-sake
- sake/alcohol (polite)
- o-niku
- meat (polite/feminine)
- o-sakana
- fish (polite/ feminine)
- o-namae
- your name (polite)
- o-tegami
- the letter (you wrote or I am going to write to you) [polite]
- o-hanashi
- the talk(you gave)/the conversation (I am going to have with you) [polite]
- o-genki
- well/all right [polite]
- go-shujin
- your husband [polite]
- go-hon
- your book [polite]
- go-ju()sho
- your address [polite]
- gohan
- meal or rice in its cooked state
- ohayo() gozaimasu
- good morning
- konnichi wa
- good day
- konban wa
- good evening
- shibaraku desu ne
- it's a long time since we met
- o-hisashiburi desu ne
- it's a long time since we met
- niku-ya
- butcher's shop/butcher
- sakana-ya
- fishmonger's shop/fishmonger
- saka-ya
- wine shop/wine merchant
- ryo()ri
- cooking
- ryo()riya
- resutaurant
- sushiya
- sushi restaurant
- Furansu-ryo()ria
- French restaurant
- Nihon-ryo()ria
- japanese restaurant
- o-toire
- toilet (feminine)
- benjo
- unrefined way of saying "toilet" usually only used by men
- tisshu
- tissue