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Starry Starry Fright Captain
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 Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2010 7:13 pm
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I know we have touched on the verb "ikimasu" before, but now we're really going to have a closer look at using that verb.
First, the vocabulary.
Ikimasu - to go
mainichi - every day
maishu - every week
maitsuki - every month
kinou - yesterday
kyou - today
ashita - tomorrow
raishu - next week
kongetsu - this month
So many words! But so useful. Take a look at some of these sentences.
1) Emily-san wa mainichi daigaku ni ikimasu.
Emily goes to university every day.
mainichi - everyday
daigaku - university
Remember your sentence structure! There is no particle that goes after "mainichi". And when talking about going places, it's PLACE ni IKIMASU. Let's look at another one.
2) Yamamoto-san wa ashita Kanada ni ikimasu.
Mr Yamamoto is going to Canada tomorrow.
ashita - tomorrow
Kanada - Canada
This is also pretty straightforward. Look, no particle after ashita. Let's see a few more examples.
3)Watashi wa raishu no doyoubi ni eigakan ni ikimasu.
I will go to the movies next Saturday.
raishu - next week
doyoubi - Saturday
Eigakan - movies/cinema
This one is a little harder. Look at it carefully. Note that there IS a "ni" after Doyoubi. You use ni after naming a specific day, inthis case, Saturday. Notice the "no" as well, between raishu and doyoubi... indicating that the Saturday is part of next week.
So, what if you want to tell someone the exact day or month that you are going somewhere? Let's take a look.
The Japanese use the Gregorian calendar, just like us. Some of the dates have special names. I'll list them below:
1 - tsuitachi
2 - futsuka
3 - mikka
4 - yokka
5 - itsuka
6 - muika
7 - nanoka
8 - yohka
9 - kokonoka
10 - tohka
20 - hatsuka
So when you want to name a day that isn't on that list, find the number of the date that you are trying to say and add -nichi to the end.
What about month? Find the number of the month (January is 1, February is 2, and so on) and add -gatsu. There are THREE months to be careful of.
April is Shi-gatsu, NOT yon-gatsu.
July is shichi-gatsu, NOT nana-gatsu.
September is ku-gatsu, NOT kyuu-gatsu.
So today's date, August 9th, would be hachi-gatsu, kokonoka.
We will finish the lesson with a little conversation for you to read.
ALICE: Kaimono ni ikimashou!
Let's go shopping!
KIKO: Nan nichi ni?
What day?
ALICE: Eeto... kongetsu no yohka ni ikimashou ka?
Umm... the eigth day of this month?
KIKO: Ii desu ne! Sou shimashou.
That's good! Let's do that!
There. It's not exactly groundbreaking literature, but it will do. Here we see Alice and Kiko making plans to go shopping. DId you see that I slipped a new verb form in there? Tee hee I'm so clever...
Yes, when you drop the -masu and add -mashou, you go from "to ____" to "let's _____". Easy!
Well, that should be lots and lots of new vocabulary to keep you busy! Post any questions you may have!
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Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:45 am
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Starry Starry Fright Captain
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Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:51 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:56 pm
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Starry Starry Fright xXSakura-chanxX67 I always thought say months need the start of the number word xd lol. Thanks!
But why does the Gregorian calendar have names for numbers? I got confused with 3)Watashi wa raishu no doyoubi ni eigakan ni ikimasu. About ni and no. The Gregorian calendar just means that they use the same 31-day (usually) months as us. Not strange Asian months. Let's go over this tricky sentence phrase by phrase and figure it out. Watashi wa raishu no doyoubi ni eigakan ni ikimasu I will go to the movies next Saturday. Or more literally: I (will), on the Saturday of next week, to the movies go. Watashi wa - This tells us that the sentence is about me. raishu no doyoubi - next Saturday. Remember that "no" indicates when something BELONGS to something else. The Saturday (doyoubi) BELONGS to next week (raishu). It is a part of it. ni eigakan - the particle "ni" indicates that we're going somewhere. In this case, it tells us that we are going to the movis (eigakan). "ni" indicates the location. ni ikimasu - again, "ni" is telling us about going somewhere, and in this case, its showing that we are going by indicating the noun "to go". Does this clear up any of your confusion?
So when I want to say Let's go would just be:
ikimashou
And saying let's go on aug 9:
hachi-gatsu ni ikimasu.
On aug 9 will go? No, no right? |
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2011 9:20 am
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:33 pm
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:54 pm
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Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:59 pm
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Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 11:46 am
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Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:55 am
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 3:55 pm
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 9:03 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:04 am
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:54 pm
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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:11 pm
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