Teach Yourself Lesson 3
Terms
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- daibu
- a great deal
- daibu arimasu ka?
- Is it far to go? (lit. Is there a great deal)
- tabakoya
- tobaco shop
- watashi-tachi no
- our
- ie
- house
- rippa na
- fine, impressive
- tonde mo nai
- not at all (expression of modesty)
- tadaima
- i'm home
- O-kaeri nasai
- welcome back
- oka(l)-san
- mother (form of address)
- yoku irasshaimashita
- thank you for comming
- 0-agari kudasai
- please come in
- o-jama shimasu/ shitsurei shimashita
- set phrase used when entering someone's house
- heya
- room
- nikai
- first floor, upstairs
- oto(l)to
- younger brother
- ima
- now
- uchi
- my/our house (the inside)
- shi di
- compact disk
- takusan
- many, a lot
- sonna ni
- so, that much etc.
- motto
- more
- inugoya
- dog house, kennel
- o-taku
- your house
- inu
- dog
- imasu
- there is (for living things only)
- kawai.i
- lovely, cute
- pu(l)doru
- poodle
- Naporeon
- Napoleon (dog's name)
- wan
- woof
- honto ni/honto(l) ni
- really
- petto
- pet
- hoka ni
- apart from this
- niwa
- garden
- ni
- on/in/at
- ni arimasu
- used to identify location of inanimate object e.g. A wa B ____ means "A is located on/in/at B"
- ni imasu
- used to identify location of animate object e.g. A wa B ____ means "A is located on/in/at B"
- honya
- bookshop
- tomodachi
- friends
- kanojo
- she
- -tachi
- word attached to personal nouns to make them plural
- watachi-tachi
- we
- hito-tachi
- persons
- kanojo-tachi
- they
- Mata Do(l)zo
- Please come again
- Arigato(l) gozaimasu
- thank you
- ja, shitsurei shimasu
- please excuse me, good bye
- genkan
- door
- gomen kudasai
- used to call out for attention when you enter someone's home
- o-jama shimashita/ shisurei shimashita
- set phrase when leaving someone's home
- itte kimasu
- said by an outgoing family member - less polite
- itte mairimasu
- said by outgoing family member - more polite
- itte irashai/itte'rasshai
- said by remaining family member when another leaves