Week Three
Note: All notes, quotes and references come from Genki: An integrated Course in Japanese and An Introduction to Modern Japanese, both published by The Japan Times.
Lesson Summary:
This week was focused on location. We covered how to describe basic location for animate and inanimate objects.
Kosoado series: Koko, soko, asoko, doko
These words work the same as kore, sore, and are. They stand alone.
Koko: this place
Soko: that place
Asoko: over there
Doko: which place
The basic sentence for showing the location of an inanimate object is
X(ko/so/a) ni Y (object) ga arimasu
Ni shows location. Ex. Asoko-ni kaban-ga arimasu. (There is a bag over there)
Location words
tonari: next door, next to
soba: close to, near
mae: front
yoko: beside
ushiro: back
ue: top, on
naka: in, middle
X(object)-no Y (location)-ni arimasu/imasu
People
imasu: verb for living things
dare: who
ano-hito: literally ”that person”. He, she.
onna-no-hito: woman/women (female person)
otoko-no-hito: man/men (male person)
onna-no-ko: girl/s (female child)
otoko-no-ko: boy/s (male child)
tachi: you can use this to pluralize a family or a person. Ex. Nakamura-san tachi: Miss Nakamura and others or the Nakamuras. However, the above people words are ambiguous and can be used either for a single person or for several people.
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