Japanese lesson 5

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Japanese Lesson n°5

Vocabulary
時	Ji	Hour
行きます	Ikimasu	Go
来ます	Kimasu	come
帰ります	Kaerimasu	Return (somewhere)
どこ	Doko	Where
いつ	Itsu	When
明日	Ashita	Tomorrow
今日	Kyô	Today
今	Ima	Now
映画館	Eigakan	Cinema

Hiragana / Katakana

木村さん：
山本さん、どこへ行きますか。

山本さん：
今、映画館へ行きます。

木村さん：
何時に帰りますか。

山本さん：
10時に帰ります。

Kimura san:
Yamamoto san, doko e ikimasu ka.

Yamamoto san:
Ima, eigakan e ikimasu.

Nan ji ni kaerimasu ka.

Jû ji ni kaerimasu.

Mr. Kimura:
Mr. Yamamoto, Where are you going?

Mr. Yamamoto:
Now, I am going to the cinema.

Mr. Kimura:
What time will you return?

Mr. Yamamoto:
I will return at 10 o’clock.

• The particle へ (he)

The particle へ is placed before the verbs ikimasu (to go), kimasu (to come) and kaerimasu (to return or to be back from somewhere) when these are preceded by a location or by どこ (where).

Caution: as a particle, へ is pronounced e “ey” as in survey and not “hay”.

どこへ行きますか。
Doko e ikimasu ka.

Where are you going?

いつ家へ来ますか。(家 = maison / chez soi)
Itsu ie e kimasu ka.

When are you coming to my house?

• The particle に (ni)

The particle に corresponds in English to "at" in a temporal expression (at what time/at five o’clock?)

明日、何時に来ますか。
Ashita, nan ji ni kimasu ka.

Tomorrow, at what time are you coming?

明日何時に家へ来ますか。
Ashita, nan ji ni ie e kimasu ka.

Tomorrow, at what time are you coming to the house?

• Recall 何: we have previously seen that kanji means "nani" (what). It can also mean "nan" (Which/ what). The difference is that, contrary to nani, nan is not followed bi the particle を (o).

今、何時。
Ima, nan ji.

What time is it? (now)

何をしましたか。
Nani o shimashita ka.

What are you doing?

The numbers
一	Ichi	1
二	Ni	2
三	San	3
四	Yon / Shi	4
五	Go	5
六	Roku	6
七	Nana / shichi	7
八	Hachi	8
九	Kyû	9
十	Jû	10

Hiragana
ど	do
つ	tsu
へ	he

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