Apparently this month has 5 Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.... something that only happens every 823 years. There's your fun fact for the next 823 years folks! So this week has been devoted to me catching up with the work I have had six weeks to finish... well, it's almost done now. Procrastination is one of the most common... er, I'll have to come back to you on that.
Here's something fun and useful, let's talk about where things are. Okay well I can already tell that this is going to be a pretty one-sided conversation but I'll take what I can get! First I'll show you some country names which have been translated from English to Japanese.
Vocabulary (Countries):
Kanada-Canada
Rooma- Rome
Pari- Paris
Mosukuwa- Moscow
Nyuuyooku- New York
Furansu- France
Amerika- United States of America
Chuugoku- China
Roshia- Russia
Ejiputo- Egypt
Nihon- Japan
Burajiru- Brazil
Itaria-Italy
Imasu and Arimasu both mean "to exist", the only difference is that imasu is specific to animate things, such as people and animals, where as arimasu is specific to inanimate objects like houses, kunai, Greenland, robotic arms or magical wands.
Template for asking where a place or inanimate object is:
______ wa doko ni arimasu ka. (Where is _______?)
Template for asking where animite objects are located:
______ wa doko ni imasu ka. (Where is ________?)
Jin-Person (Added on at the end of the country you are from)
Kuni-country
More templates:
So as you may have seen already, doko is translated roughly to "where" and doko ni is translated to "at what location" which is similar to koko ni which is "at this location". Here's a cool causal saying you can use:
Doko e - Where to?
Doko ni sunde imasu ka - Where do you live?
Watashi wa ______ ni sunde imasu - I live in ______/I am living in _______
Doko no kuni no kata desu ka - What country are you from?(Slightly formal)
Watashi wa _______ jin desu - I am a(n) _________ person.
In the blanks, place the country you are from and there you go!
Example:
Doko no kuni no kata desu ka. (What country are you from?)
Watashi wa Kanada jin desu. (I am a Canadian person.)
Watashiwa no pan wa doko ni arimasu ka. (Where is my bread?)
Koko ni arimasu. (It's over here.)
Vocabulary (Places):
Shita-under/bottom
Ue-on/top/above
Naka-inside/middle
Soto-outisde
Mae-front
Ushiro-back/behind
Yoko-along side/next to
Aida-between/interval
Mukou-beyond
Tonari-next door/neighboring
Hidari gawa-left side
Migi gawa-right side
Basic words to "left" and "right" side:
Migi-right
Hidari-left
Then followed by gawa makes ____ side.
Examples:
Inu wa doko ni imasu ka. (Where is the dog?)
Koko ni imasu. (It's over here.)
Soto ni imasu. (It's outside.)
Naka ni imasu. (It's inside.)
Kuruma no shita imasu. (It's under the car.)
Kuruma no ue imasu. (It's on the car.)
Kuruma no ushiro imasu. (It's behind the car.)
I wish if someone asked "Brooke-san wa doko ni imasu ka." I could reply "Brooke-san wa beddo ni imasu." but, alas, I still have stuff to do with an unfortunate amount of energy to back me up. Oyasuminasai! (I wish...)
Brooke.
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