Japanese

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Japanese (日本語 Nihongo)

Japanese is spoken primarily in Japan, where it is the national language. Japanese is language with simple phonotactics, a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent. Modern Japanese is written in a mixture of three main systems: kanji, characters of Chinese origin; and two syllabaries: hiragana and katakana. Hiragana is also suffixed to the ends of kanji to show verb and adjective conjugations. Katakana, like hiragana, are a syllabary; katakana are primarily used to write foreign words, plant and animal names.

Useful Japanese Words


トイレ (toire) = Toilet
手洗い (tearai) = Bathroom
助けて (tasukete) = HELP
わかりません (wakarimasen) = I don't understand
やめて！ (yamete!) = Stop it!
英語 (eigo) = English
服 (fuku) = Clothes
警察 (keisatsu) = Police
危ない (abunai) = Dangerous
危険 (kiken) = Peril, Hazard

ASKING
どうした？ (doushita?) = What Happened?
どうして？ (doushite?) = Why?
なに？ (nani) = What?
時間 (jikan) = Time
質問 (shitsumon) = Question
だれ (dare) = Who
いつ (itsu) = When
先生 (sensei) = Teacher
学生 (gakusei) = Student
会社員 (kaishain) = Employee
人 (hito) = Person
私 (watashi) = I
あなた (anata) = You

LOCATIONS
ホテル (hoteru) = Hotel
どこ (doko) = Where
空港 (kuukou) = Airport
駅 (eki) = Station
日本 (nihon/nippon) = Japan
大学 (daigaku) = College
本屋 (honya) = Bookstore
タクシー (takushi) = Taxi
家 (ie/uchi) = Home

FOOD
おなかすいた (onaka suita) / はらへった (hara hetta) = Hungry
食べます (tabemasu) = To Eat
食べません (tabemasen) = To Not Eat
飲みます (nomimasu) = To Drink
飲みません (nomimasen) = To Not Drink
水 (mizu) = Water
飲み物 (nomimono) = Drink
食べ物 (tabemono) = Food
美味しい (oishii) = Good Tasting. Tasty.
不味い (mazui) = Bad Tasting
レストラン (resutoran) = Restaurant
コンビニ (konbini) = Convenience Store
スーパー (suupaa) = Super Market

Greetings

ありがとうございます (arigatougozaimasu) = Thank You
すみません (sumimasen) = Excuse Me
ごめんなさい (gomennasai) = Sorry
いただきます (itadakimasu) = Bon Apetite!
ごちそうさまでした (gochisousama deshita) = Thanks for the food
おはようございます (ohayougozaimasu) = Good Morning
こんにちは (konnichiwa) = Good Afternoon
こんばんは (konbanwa) = Good Evening
ではまた (dewamata) = See You Later
また明日 (mata ashita) = See You Tomorrow
さようなら (sayounara) = Good bye
おやすみなさい (oyasuminasai) = Good Night
Time for sleepy time. Good night!

BASIC VERBS
行きます (ikimasu) = To Go
帰ります (kaerimasu) = To Return (home)
食べます (tabemasu) = To Eat
します (shimasu) = To Do
見ます (mimasu) = To See
買います (kaimasu) = To Buy
待ちます (machimasu) = To Wait
書きます (kakimasu) = To Write
止まります (tomarimasu) = To Stop
教えます (oshiemasu) = To Teach
話します (hanashimasu) To Speak

ADJECTIVES
新しい (atarashii) = New
嬉しい (ureshii) = Happy
大丈夫 (daijoubu) = Okay
すごい (sugoi) = Amazing
高い (takai) = Expensive / Tall
大きい (ookii) = Big, Large
小さい (chiisai) = Small
近い (chikai) = Near
遠い (tooi) = Far
悪い (warui) = Bad
いい (ii) = Good
面白い (omoshiroi) = Interesting
楽しい (tanoshii) = Fun
熱い (atsui) = Hot
寒い (samui) = Cold
上手 (jouzu) = Good At
下手 (heta) = Bad At
赤 (aka) = Red
青 (ao) = Blue
黒 (kuro) = Black
緑 (midori) = Green
黄色 (kiiro) = Yellow
白 (shiro) = White
馬鹿 (baka) = Stupid!

NUMBERS
一 (ichi) = One
二 (ni) = Two
三 (san) = Three
四 四 (shi/yon) = Four
五 (go) = Five
六 (roku) = Six
七 (nana) = Seven
八 (hachi) = Eight
九 (ku/kyuu) = Nine
十 (juu) = Ten
百 (hyaku) = 100
千 (sen) = 1,000
万 (man) = 10,000