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Japanese - The Basics

01-10-2004 00:52

wiseass

1,414 posts

Okay okay okay okay. My name is Rachel. I'm going to teach you inferior mortals some Japanese.

First. I want to let you know that Japanese is a hard language to learn.

Rule number one! Japanese put the VERB at the END! so, go ahead and get comfortable with putting verbs at the end. Go Ahead. Say "I sushi ate" or "You moron are" and so on and so forth.

Now it gets hard, Let's say you want to say "I ate sushi"
The word for 'I' is Watashi. But teenage males use Boku instead

The word for "Sushi" is just plain Sushi.

The word for "ate" is Tabeta

It seems like it should be "Watashi Sushi Tabeta" right?

WRONG!

It is Watashi WA Sushi O Tabeta

You're probably thinking... WTH is Wa And O? They're markers. They're Subject and Object markers. Without them, Japanese wouldn't know If you ate the sushi, or if the Sushi ate you. Wa always fallows the subject, and o always fallows the object.

Questions?

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02-01-2005 20:59 EverBlue
21 posts	I think it's a good idea with Japanese lessons! But I know everything that has been up till now.......but don't quit! BTW, the present form of tabru is taberu, not tabete. Tabete is used if there's other verbs in the sentence that come after tabete. At least that's what I've always learned and experienced.... Correct me if I'm wrong.
02-01-2005 21:00 EverBlue
21 posts	* offtopic : Of course I meant taberu when I wrote "tabru"!
02-01-2005 21:00 Jarka79
1,060 posts	I like this one!!! Keep on going!
07-01-2005 01:19 wiseass
1,414 posts	That's funny... I learned it differently...
22-01-2005 23:36 wiseass
1,414 posts	Here are the "polite" ways of conjugating verbs. Lets take (my favorite) Taberu, which means "to eat" for presnt tense, you drop "ru" and add "mas" tabemas for negative tense, you drop ru, and add "masen" tabemasen past tense is "mashta" tabemashta then, past negative, you drop "ru" and add masendeshita tabemasendeshita
12-02-2005 23:34 TimmyTomboy
5 posts	anata wa watasi no tomodachi des.
22-02-2005 18:07 miaka21yui
69 posts	i wish i could speak japanese, cause thats a hecka cool language. i know it's really hard to learn though, my cousing takes it. thanks for the lesson on speaking japanese though. he he
12-03-2005 03:53 wiseass
1,414 posts	okay... sorry I haven't been on much lately... so... I dunno... I'll teach you miscellanious things. what is your name? > anata no namae wa nan des ka? vocabulary: anata > you no > 's namae > name wa > (subject marker) nan > what des > is ka > (for some reason you put this at the end of a question).
12-03-2005 03:59 wiseass
1,414 posts	how are you? > o genki des ka? o genki > energy level des > is ka > (question thing) you can't translate "o genki des ka" into english very well. to respond to this, you say... casual: Hai, genki ii des yo Hai > yes genki > energy level ii > fine des yo> is (more polite)
22-05-2005 00:57 wiseass
1,414 posts	And now for something totally different! I'll ask you a question in Japanese, and you answer it! here are some words I might use: Tenki : Weather Ashita : Tomarrow Kinou : Yesterday Atsui : Hot (weather wise) Samui : Cold (again, weather wise) Sai : Age Nan, nani,: What Tomadachi : Friend, friends, So des ne? : Is that so? verbs Taberu : eat Omou : think Nomu : drink Hanasu : speak Suru: do (don't get any bright ideas.) Shaburu : suck (I just wanted to throw this in. Just to see what happens.) Kiku : Hear, Listen, Miru : See
22-05-2005 00:58 wiseass
1,414 posts	Tenki wa Atsui des ka?
22-05-2005 14:05 Bombova
18 posts	Wow ^^' Japanese is for me a mysterious language, it sounds really extra Yours 'board lessons' interested me in Japanese... Another lessons and I'll like to learn it ;p
25-05-2005 15:43 salaam
15,547 posts	Tenki wa Atsui des ka? - Is the weather hot? Hmm in Finnish we use the same question marker thing as in japanese.. though we add -ko or -kö to the word itself. like wave=aalto and as a question it's aaltoko? I eat=Syön do i eat?=syönkö Anyhow, this was supposed to be a japanese lesson
20-06-2005 16:45 ribosom
323 posts	you ROCK! no seriously, I've been trying to learn Japanese using various grammar and vocabulary books but they're all so unclear, I really don't get anything.
22-06-2005 07:54 The_Optimist
14,694 posts	I can only say 'Kimi-Ga Sukidato Sakebitai' and 'Anata dake mitsumeteru'
04-07-2005 17:30 gmajor
104 posts	Hey! i can speak japanese!
20-07-2005 20:21 Bou_Is_Love
7 posts	Thanks for the basic lessons! I have been wanting to learn Japanese grammar for ages! Thankyou!
04-09-2005 22:18 Jfizzle38
1,602 posts	wiseass u need to go home
15-10-2005 23:44 Hike
1,392 posts	ahh, my native language is not close of japanese.. no way!! my language is closer than english.. some words we spell same way.. but it doesn't matter anyway... Well, I got two questions.. here I go: When u use "o" u mean "wo"?? Wot's mean: "rikuchino saihate umino hajikiri"??
23-05-2006 06:03 Blakimage713
19 posts	I need to ask the person who made this a question... and I'm not trying to sound mean, I'm just taking Japanese lessons, plus the family talks to me in Japanese (because I am Japanese...), do you want to speak slang japanese, like the teens and the manga ppl use, or are you teaching traditional Japanese? shirimasen.
23-05-2006 06:05 Blakimage713
19 posts	oh plus.. to help those out there who don't know pronounciation... because I teach a few ppl myself, you might want to put pronouciation. ^_^
29-01-2007 13:07 DeepHouse
5 posts	And won't you teach those kung-fu kinds of stuff?
25-06-2007 23:05 nevertheless
4 posts	Traditional Japanese is rather available, I think. Blakimage713, will you help us to learn slang?)