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Random Words
着きます -> つきます -> To arrive
到着します -> とうちゃくします -> Arrival (Same as above but different way of saying it)
Asking How Long
You can ask about how much time something took or how long something is by using "どれぐらい" or "どのぐらい” in front of the activity or thing your asking about. Works for height, length, time,
どれぐらい寝ていますか？ -> About how long did you sleep?
Surprised Responses
も
Bit of a side note, but if your surprised about a response or shocked about it or something, you can say the response and add "も" after it. Its like your saying "wow thats a lot" after the number, but it does NOT apply to things that are "so few". (see later for that)
How long did you sleep? 12 Hours. 12 Hours!??
どれぐらい寝ていますか？ 二十時間。二十時間も！
Can also add the rest of the sentence if you feel like it.
しか
If your surprised for something being so few, you can use "しか”, much like ”も”, but the following verb has to be in negative tense. Actually very similar to "だけ”, but the verbs after だけ can be positive, but the verb after しか must be negative.
This college is only 30,000 yen. Only costs 30,000yen!?!
学費は三万円です。三万円しかかかりません！
ませんか as an invitation / Volitional Form
This is used for an invitation, when inviting multiple people (including yourself), you can invite in two ways, polite and non-polite.
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polite form is to stick ~ませんか at the end of a verb (or whatever the conjugation is).
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non-polite is to just say the negative form of the verb, no か or nothing, just give a slight second tone inflection at the end to indicate its a question
明日は映画に行きませんか？ Want to go see a movie tomorrow?
In responding, there's also two ways to respond in kind
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Polite Form -> Stick ましょう at the end of the verb
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Non-Polite Form -> Use Volitional Form:
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今夜は焼き肉を食べませんか？ 食べましょう！
- 今夜は焼き肉を食べない？ 食べよう、いいね！
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この金曜日は飲みませんか？飲みましょう！
- この金曜日は飲まない？いいね、飲もう！
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泳ぎませんか？泳ぎましょう！
- 泳がない？泳ごう！