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Sunday, December 07, 2008
Japanese words

Found a pretty cool web that teach you simple japanese.

Japanese is a subject-object-verb language. Generally the subject comes first, then the object and the verb comes at the end of the sentence.

Greetings:

Ohayou - Good morning
Konnichiwa - Good afternoon
Konbanwa - Good evening
Oyasuminasai - Good night
Sayonara - Good bye
Dewa mata - See you later
Mata ashita - See you tomorrow
Genki desu ka - How are you? ('ka' means '?')

Hai - Yes
Iie - No
Sumimasen - Excuse me
Doumo - Thanks
Arigatou gozaimasu - Thank you
Dou itashimashite - You are welcome
Nihongo o hanashimasu ka - Do you speak Japanese?
Hai, sukoshi - Yes, a little
Wakarimasu ka - Do you understand?
Wakarimasen - I don't understand
Shirimasen - I don't know
Nihongo de nan to iimasu ka - How do you say it in Japanese?
Dou iu imi desu ka - What does it mean?
Kore wa nan desu ka - What is it?
Yukkuri hanashite kudasai - Please speak slowly
Mou ichido itte kudasai - Please say it again
Iie, kekkou desu - No thanks
Daijoubu desu - It is all right

Nani - What
Doko - Where
Dare - Who
Itsu - When
Dore - Which
Ikura - How much

Number:

1 - ichi
2 - ni
3 - san
4 - yon/shi
5 - go
6 - roku
7 - nana/shichi
8 - hachi
9 - kyuu/ku
10 - juu

11 - juuichi (10+1)
12 - juuni (10+2)
13 - juusan (10+3)

20 - nijuu (2x10)
21 - nijuuichi (2x10+1)
22 - nijuuni (2x10+2)

30 - sanjuu (3x10)
31 - sanjuuichi (3x10+1)
32 - sanjuuichi (3x10+2)

'ji' means 'o'clock'
'fun/pun' means 'minutes'
To express the time, say the hours first, then the minutes, then add 'desu'

100 - hyaku
200 - nihyaku
300 - sanhyaku
400 - yonhyaku
500 - gohyaku
600 - roppyaku
700 - nanahyaku
800 - happyaku
900 - kyuuhyaku
1000 - sen
2000 - nisen
3000 - sanzen
4000 - yonsen
5000 - gosen
6000 - rokusen
7000 - nanasen
8000 - hassen
9000 - kyuusen

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