--- type: Classes title: 08/04/2025 - Japanese Class date: '2025-08-04' --- # Random Words 明後日 -> あさって -> the day after tomorrow 明明後日 -> しあさって -> two days after tomorrow 力士 -> Rikishi -> Sumo Wrestler お相撲さん -> おすもうさん -> Sumo Wrestler 馬 -> うま -> Horse バナナ -> Banana. Its a banana. 輸入 -> ゆにゅう -> to Import 一日だけ -> いちにちだけ -> Only one day 出身 -> しゅっしん -> Hometown 今度 -> こんど -> Next time 暇 -> ひま -> Free/Bored 無くす -> なくす -> To lose something (more colloquial then 失う) 出会う -> であう -> To meet initially, but only on good experience... I think. Google says "To Encounter" # Random Sentences # List Things Loosely (や) Used to list things "like" the first thing. バナナやりんごをたべました -> Eat things like bananas and apples スキーやサッカーをします -> Play things like Ski and Socker 日本や米国に行ったことがあります -> Have the experience of going to things like Japan and America # Asking about things, but politely (んです) 旅行に行きましたか? Asking something like this is a direct, and not very friendly. Instead, use 旅行に行ったんですか? Can also be attached to nouns if your saying you like something, but its more subjective ## Verbs ### For Past Tense: Conjugate a verb to past tense, and then stick "んです" after it, and it makes it far more polite, especially when asking a question. Great for asking something, but is far less then direct then just asking point blank. A: 旅行に行ったんですか? B: 旅行に行ったんですよ? ### For Present Tense: For present and future tense, just use the regular verb, no conjugation, and stick んです after it. Same meaning. A: 旅行にいくんですか? B: 旅行にいくんです ### For Negative: Conjugate the verb into regular negative tense, and add んです. お金がないんです -> I don't have any money. わからないんです -> I don't understand ## For Adjectives You can also add it at the end of adjectives, and pretty much anything else to make a question less direct, and more polite. Stick it at the end of い adjectives without issue, add な for な Adjectives. 眠いんですか? -> Are you sleepy? 暇なんです? -> Are you bored? ## Examples おなかが痛いんですか -> Does your stomach hurt 熱があるんですか -> Do you have a fever? 寒いんですか -> Are you cold? 疲れたんです -> 何かなくしたんですか? -> Did you lose something? 携帯をなくしたんです! -> I lose my cell phone 旅行に行ったんです 良かったですね!どこに行ったんですか?誰といったんですか?なにをしたんですか? 来月結婚するんです 誰と結婚するんですか?どこで会ったんですか? 74915888180:8823