watch 01:25
Jurassic World: Dominion Dominates Fandom Wikis - The Loop
Do you like this video?
Play Sound
Intro 3 is the fifteenth skill (assuming read left to right) in the Japanese language course. It has six lessons and introduces many other common sentences and basic Japanese grammar.
Grammar Notes[]
Sentence tags[]
Some sentences in Japanese have tags at the end to indicate the intention of the speaker. Two are introduced in this skill: ね and よ.
- ね means that the speaker is unsure of the statement but not directly asking. The closest equivalent in English is adding "isn't it?" or "right?" at the end of a sentence.
- よ means that the speaker
Plurals[]
Most of the time, Japanese doesn't really indicate the plural of something. The word 犬 can mean "dog" or "dogs", for instance. But if you want to make the plural obvious, you add たち (tachi)!
Lessons[]
Lesson 1[]
- 京都 (kyou-to) = Kyoto (きょうと)
- 東京 (tou-kyou) = Tokyo (とうきょう)
- 住んでいます (su-n-de-i-masu) = I live (にすんでいます)
- 住んでいません (su-n-de-i-ma-sen) = I do not live (にすんでいません)
Lesson 2[]
- 阪 (sa-ka) = slope (さか)
- 大阪 (oosaka) = Osaka (おおさか)
- 歳 (sai) = years old (さい)
- 一歳 (i-ssai) = one year old (いっさい)
- 二歳 (ni-sai) two years old (にさい)
- 四歳 (yon-sai) = four years old (よんさい)
- 五歳 (go-sai) = five years old (ごさい)
- 六歳 (roku-sai) = six years old (ろくさい)
- 十六歳 (juu-rok-sai) = sixteen years old (じゅうろくさい)
- 十八歳 (juu-ha-sai) = eighteen years old (じゅうはさい)
- 三十二歳 (san-jyuu-nisai) = thirty two years old (さんじゅうにさい)
- 申し (mou-shi) = to be called (もうし)
- 申します (mou-shi-ma-su) = my name is (もうします)
Lesson 3[]
- 留学 (ryuu-gaku) = study abroad りゅうがく
- 留学生 (ryuu-gaku-sei) = foreign exchange student (りゅうがくせい )
- 外国人 (gai-koku-jin) = foreigner (がいこくじん)
- そうです (sou-desu) = that is right
- よ (yo) = you know
- ね (ne) = isn't it/isn't there?
- よね (yo-ne) = right?
- よろしくね (yo-ro-shi-ku-ne) = nice to meet you
Lesson 4[]
- 年生 (nen-sei) = school grade/year (ねんせい )
- 二年生 (ni-nen-sei) = second grader (にねんせい)
- 四年生 (yo-nen-sei) = fourth grader (よねんせい)
- 違い (chi-gai) = difference (ちがい)
- 小学 (shou-gaku) = elementary/primary school (しょうがく)
- 小学生 (shou-gaku-sei) = elementary school student (しょうがくせい)
- 中学生 (chuu-gaku-sei) = middle school student (ちゅうがくせい)
- 私 (wa-ta-shi) = I/me (わたし)
Lesson 5[]
- 違います (chiga-i-masu) = that is not right (ちがいます)
- たち (tachi) = pluralising suffix
- 大学 (dai-gaku) = university/college (だいがく)
- 大学生 (dai-gaku-sei) = university/college student (だいがくせい)
- 大学生たち (dai-gaku-sei-tachi) = university/college students (だいがく-せい-たち)
- 高校 (kou-kou) = high school (こうこう)
- 高校生 (kou-kou-sei) = high school student (こうこうせい)
- 高校生たち (kou-kou-sei-tachi) = high school students (こうこうせいたち)
- 中学生たち (chuu-gaku-sei-tachi) = middle school students (ちゅうがく-せい-たち)
- 小学生たち (shou-gaku-sei-tachi) = elementary school students (しょうがく-せい-たち)
Lesson 6[]
- 直美 (nao-mi) = Naomi (female name) (なおみ)
- 健太 (ken-ta) = Kenta (male name) (けんた)
References[]
Duolingo Lesson: www.duolingo.com/skill/ja/Introduction-3