--- type: Classes title: 08/13/2025 - Japanese Class date: '2025-08-13' --- # General Words 乗り換え - のりかえ - Transfer (as in Travelling, transfer planes, etc.) 二日酔い - ふつかよい - Hangover 入院します - にゅういんします - To Enter Hospital 生活費 -> せいかつひ -> Living Expenses (Literally Life Cost) 費 -> ひ -> Can append to pretty much anything to show the cost of something 学費 -> School Costs, 旅費 -> Travel Costs 財布 -> さいふ -> Wallet # すぎる - To Much ## Verbs To use すぎる, conjugate verb to -ます form, and then delete ます, and add すぎる to the end, then conjugate すぎる to whatever tense it needs to be in. Examples: ビールを飲みすぎて二日酔いです - I drank too much beer and now I have a hangover 働きすぎて、入院します - I worked too hard and ended up in the hospital お金を使いすぎて、財布輪からです -> I spent too much money and my wallet is empty. 歌いすぎて、のどが痛いです -> I sang too much and my throat hurts 冷たい水で泳ぎすぎて、入院します ## Adjectives ### い - Adjectives Take the い off, and stick すぎる at the end. So 寒い turns into 寒すぎる. 泳いだ水が つめたすぎて、入院します。-> The water he swam in was so cold he was hospitalized. 買い物をしすぎて、財布が空です -> I've shopped too much and my wallet is empty 生活費は高すぎて、財布が空です -> The cost of living is too high and my wallet is empty ### な-Adjectives For な Adjectives, just kill the な after it, and replace with すぎる きれいな -> きれいすぎる # 方がいい -> It'd be better to... Stick 方がいいですよ after a verb to advise somebody to do it. ## Affirmative For affirmative verbs, advising someone to do something, the verb needs to be in regular affirmative past tense, then stick the above after it. 休んだほうがいいですよ -> It'd be better if you rested 勉強した方がいいですよ -> You'd better study 沖縄に行ったほうがいいですよ -> it'd be better to go to Okinawa ## Negative For Negative verbs, advising somebody not to do something, just conjugate to to present negative standard form 働かないほうがいいですよ -> It'd be better not to work 夜中にゲームをしない方がいいですよ -> You shouldn't play games late at night 飲みに行かない方がいいですよ -> You'd better not go drinking 沖縄に行かない方がいい -> It'd be better to not go to Okinawa 88069936933:00065