Japanese lesson for beginners

[elkica]

Lesson XVII.

 

Revision:

 

にほんごの　べんきょうは　なんじ　から　ですか

                                   6じ　から　です

にほんごのべんきょは　なんじ　まで　ですか

7：30   7じはん or　7じ30ぷん　まで　です　

7：35   7じ35ふん　まで　です

7：40   7じ40ぷん　まで　です

  

あさ　  -Morning                                  きょう             - today

ひる     - Daytime                                  あした            - yesterday

ばん     - Evening                                  あさって          - the day after tomorrow

ぞる     - Night                                      こんばん          - this evening

 

まいあさ - every morning                                

まいにち - every day                           

まいばん - every evening                                 

 

VERBS:

                                                          

Positive form                                                  Negative form

おきます                     - wake up                     あきません

ねます                        - go to sleep                 ねません

はたらきます               - to work                      はたらきません

やすみます      -           take a rest                   やすみません

べんきょうします       - to study                      べんきょうしません

 

よる。　はたらきますか　

                                   はい、はたらきます (yes, I was working)

                                   いいえ、　はたらきません  (no, I wasn’t working)

 

に　- at, ni

 

わたしは          　あさ　          6じ      　に     おきます

I every morning 6 o'clock at wake up

 

 

ごせん - 2:00 am

ごご - 2:00 pm

 

6じ　に                                              おきます

あさ　に          (we don't use ni)           べんきょうします

ごご　に          (we don't use ni)           はたらきます

にちようび                                          べんくおします

にちようび　に           (we can use both, with and without ni)   

  

ときどき – sometimes

Comments

[fantasia0829.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, I just miss all these Jap lessons! But ah... doki doki means 'sometimes'? I must have read too much manga, because the first thought that came into my mind is the sound of the heart pounding! I think 'doki doki' is also used in Japan for that. XDD

[elkica.livejournal.com]

Is actually tokidoki. I just love the way that word sounds: tokidoki, tokidoki or the way nothing sounds: zenzen.

'doki doki' will check that out.
Hot from the online dictionary:
dokidoki throb, beat (fast)

[fantasia0829.livejournal.com]

Ooops! XD I totally missed that it is tokidoki. XDDD

[anc-q.livejournal.com]

isnt "night" - yoru?

why "I was working" is - hatarakimasu? um I was sure that masu is for present tense, gentle form.
As it seems to me if "I WAS working" - that should be translated as
"hatarakimashita"?or if it's necessary to make a stress on duration it will be "hatariite imashita"
*confusion*

next, I wake up at 6 o'clockevery morning - shouldn't we use maiasa instead of just asa?

gozen - 2:00 am gogo - 2:00 pm - not 12? 0_o

thank you for the lesson btw =)

[elkica.livejournal.com]

I was sure that masu is for present tense, gentle form. It is, it is.

It seems that comfusions comes from the fact that in this lesson we didn't learn about past tense, so that's why we used hatarakimasu. (Maybe I should change trans.)

shouldn't we use maiasa instead of just asa We could, we could, but maiasa we learnt in the next lesson, so we don't know it here and so we didn't use it.

gozen - 2:00 am gogo - 2:00 pm It's just an example.

[anc-q.livejournal.com]

I see - I'm such a baka XD

thanks!

[elkica.livejournal.com]

No, you are not.