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The Last Time in Glasgow

Monday, 7 July 2008

Lets Learn Japanese

(Does anyone knows what 'I'm going' is, in Japanese? Please tell me if you do)


Ohayoo gozaimasu - Good Morning
Konnichiwa - Good Afternoon
Konbanwa - Good Evening
Oyasumi nasai - Good Night

Arigatoo gozaimasu - Thank you very much
Arigatou - Thank you
Doomo Arigato - Thank You
Doomo -Thanks
Doo itashimashite - Your welcome
Sumimasen / Suimasen - Excuse me
Doomo suimasen - I'm sorry

Doozo o-hairi kudasai - Please come in
Doozo - Please
Onegaishimasu - Please (begging)
Daijoubu - It's Ok

Hajimemashite - Nice to meet you / How do you do?
Hisashiburi - Long time no see

O genki desu ka? - How are you?
Genki desu - I'm fine

Gakusei desu ka? - Are you a student?
Hai - Yes

Izzati Shahabuddin desu - I'm Izzati Shahabuddin

tada ima - I'm home
Okaeri - Welcome back

Sou desu ka - I see

chotto matte / matte - Wait

Numbers

1 ichi 21 nijuuichi 100 hyaku
2 ni 22 nijuuni 150 hyakugojuu
3 san 23 nijuusan 200 nihyaku
4 yon/shi 30 sanjuu 300 sanbyaku
5 go 31 sanjuuichi 1000 sen
6 roku 32 sanjuuni 1500 sengohyaku
7 nana/shichi 40 yonjuu 2000 nisen
8 hachi 41 yonjuuichi 10,000 ichiman
9 kyuu/ku 42 yonjuuni 100,000 juuman
10 juu 50 gojuu 1,000,000 hyakuman
11 juuichi 51 gojuuichi 10,000,000 senman
12 juuni 52 gojuuni

100,000,000

ichioku
13 juusan 60 rokujuu

14 juushi 61 rokujuuichi

15 juugo 70 nanajuu

16 juuroku 71 nanajuuichi

17 juushichi 80 hachijuu

18 juuhachi 81 hachijuuichi

19 juuku 90 kyuujuu

20 nijuu 91 kyuujuuichi


Shape

maru - circle
naga- long
naga maru - oval
shikaku - square
naga shikaku - rectangle
ha-ato - heart
san-kaku - triangle

iro - colours

yellow - ki iro
blue - ao iro
red - aka iro
white - shiro iro
black - kuro iro
green - midori iro
grey - hai iro
purple - murasaki iro
light blue - mizu iro
light green - kimidori iro
pink - pinku / momo iro
orange - orenji / daida iro
sukina iro wa nan desu ka? - What's your favourite colour?

Before you eat you say : itadakimasu! - I don't really know what it means but its like "thanks for the food"

Nande? - Why?
Nani? - What?
Doshite? / Doshitano? - What's wrong?

maji/maji de? - seriously/really?
maji - yeah seriously

naiteki-crazy

baka - stupid
bakabakashii- stupid person

Simple "First-Meet" Conversation

A. & B. Hajimemashite - Nice to meet you
A. O namae wa nan desu ka? - What is your name?
B. Watashi no namae wa ................ desu. O namae wa? - My name is .......... Your name is?
A. Watashi no namae wa ............. desu. - My name is ............
B. Nan sai desu ka? - How old are you?
A. 11 sai desu. Anata wa? - I'm 11 years old. You?
B. 12 sai desu. - I'm 12 years old
A. & B. Dozo yoroshiku onegaishimasu - Please take care of me



5 comments:

Once-In-A-Life-Time said...

hey zati!
cool stuff u got here..
and thx now i know a little bit of japanese..
eheh

Diyana said...

hi ,
cool post u got there!!

arigato!!^_^

watashiwa diyana desu...

Zakiyah said...

Yo! What about 'what's you name?' Isn't it like 'onamae wa nan desu ka?' Whoa, it is!! And 'Okaeri' is 'welcome back'

Add these if you want, maji/maji de? - seriously/really? , maji - yeah seriously, naiteki-crazy, bakabakashii-stupid/stupid person.

Oh, note that doomo could also be used as doomo arigatou, I think. Sbb ade dlm the Last Samurai.

Urgh, how come you thought of this first, so cool...

Zakiyah said...

Oh, oh! Can't forget that 'chotto matte!!' hehehehe...and 'suki da yo'? Is that how you say it? Wait, how do you say it?

Anonymous said...

Itterasshai = I'm leaving (the house)
Ittekimasu= Goodbye (when someone who lives there is leaving; literally it means 'go and come back')