Last Weeks Homework

Synopsis from 2025-12-23 Class

This week's lesson covered three main points:

Cause and Effect with (と): Using 「と」 to connect a cause and its natural, inevitable effect (e.g., "If I eat, I get sleepy").
Sequencing with (てから): Using the て-form of a verb followed by 「から」 to clearly indicate that one action happens after another is completed (e.g., "After I shower, I will eat").
Transitive (他動詞) vs. Intransitive (自動詞) Verbs: Understanding the fundamental difference between verbs that take a direct object (marked with を) and verbs that describe a state change on their own (marked with が).

真冬 -> まふゆ -> Mid-Winter
頭がぼうっとします -> My head feels foggy
初詣 -> はつもうで -> First visit of the year to a shrine
合格ごうかく -> しますように
健康 -> けんこう -> Health
聖なる力 -> せいなるちから -> Holy Spirit
下す -> くだす -> to lower
戻る -> もどる -> To go back
- As opposed to 帰る, which means to go back to a specific location. 帰る gives the sense of going back to someplace that's considered like a "home base". So not only your actual home, country, etc., but could be some place with a home-like feeling to it (your relatives' town, the city where you went to college, etc.)
硝子 -> ガラス -> Glass

Usually used in prayers. You can stick ~ように after a polite conjugated verb if your asking for something. It should be in the passive form (～られる)。

健康でいられますように -> Please let my health be good 牛肉を食べられますように -> Please let me eat beef.

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