Japanese Lessons – March 10 2009

I wasn’t able to join the lessons for the past 4 sessions already

I seem to have meetings during this time and I’m sad that I missed the sessions. I was able to get hold of someone notes’, thus sharing….

Lessons on People

• Nan nin – How many (nin refers to # of person)
• Nan sai – how old
• Imasen – I don’t have (for person)
• Arimasen – I don’t have (for inanimate objects)
• Nihonggo ga waraku – do you speak Japanese?
• ________ ga deriku – do you know _________?
• Sukoshi – a little (reply to waraku)

Counting referring to person

1 – Hitori
2 – Futari
3 – San-nin
4 – Shi-nin
5 – go-nin

** different affixes are used as counter for nouns

Lessons on Time

• Ji – put suffix ji after the number to mean time
• Am – gozen (put in front of time)
• Pm – gogo (put in front of time)
• Half hour or 30mins – han (placed after ji meaning half of an hour)

e.g., 1:00AM gozen ichi-ji

12:30PM gogo jyu ni ji han

Additional for Numbers

• 10,000 – Man
• 100,000 – Juman
• 1,000,000 – Hyakuman