Lesson 2 wordlist
This is the wordlist for the second lesson, and contains all the Japanese words used in the lesson, as well as supplementary words that are good to know in relation to the lesson words. The list is split up in a few categories so you can study them targetly. Words with an asterisk (*) are supplementary words that are good to know if you're learning the ones in the wordlist anyway.
new expressions
| お | Said to someone who has done something tiring, either mentally or physically |
| ご | Said to someone who has done something labourious. |
| Said when expressing gratefulness to someone well above you on the social ladder | |
| Similar in meaning to the previous expression | |
| This literally translates to "[I] express my gratitude" and is a formal way of being sincerely thankful. It can be made more formal by replacing する with its humble counterpart 致す |
particles
| が | weak "but" |
| か | question marker |
| を | verb objects |
| が | subject |
| に | relational objects |
| へ | direction (pronounced え) |
| に | location |
| で | focussing on the verb action at some location |
| に | focussing on the location of some verb action |
words
| お | expression of gratitude |
| どうも | (very) much, very, quite |
| どうぞ | please, by all means |
| - | 1. likeness suffix |
| 2. more formal version of the name suffix -さん | |
| what time | |
| what | |
| clock hour | |
| train | |
| bullet train | |
| バス | bus |
| タクシー | taxicab |
| bicycle | |
| car, vehicle | |
| road | |
| sea | |
| lake | |
| pond | |
| room | |
| ホテル | hotel |
| japanese inn | |
| trip, travel | |
| travel | |
| "a going" (going somewhere for a distinct purpose) | |
| break, vacation | |
| summer vacation | |
| winter vacation | |
| spring | |
| summer | |
| autumn | |
| winter | |
| airport | |
| sky, air | |
| port, harbour | |
| airplane | |
| euphonic change (no need to know this, but I needed it for the next word ^^) | |
| sound | |
| うち | in group, inner circle |
| マレーシア | Malaysia |
| Heian era (794-1185) | |
| Edo/Tokugawa era (1603-1868) | |
| Meiji era (1868 -1912) | |
| Taisho era (1912-1926) | |
| Shouwa era (1926-1989) | |
| Heisei era (began in 1989) |
い-adjectives
| ない | not, marks negation |
| おいしい | delicious |
| よい / いい | good |
| thick, dense, intense | |
| thin, sparse, bland | |
| new, fresh | |
| old | |
| square | |
| round | |
| enjoyable | |
| interesting | |
| white | |
| black | |
| big | |
| small | |
| long | |
| short | |
| warm (environment) | |
| cold (environment) | |
| warm (object) | |
| cold (object) |
verbs
| to make, to fabricate (v5) (tr) | |
| to teach (v1) (tr) | |
| to let pass (v5) (tr) | |
| to pass [by], to go through (v5, intr) | |
| to lend a hand (v5) (tr) | |
| to fear, to be in awe of (v1) (intr) | |
| to go in/into (v5) (intr) | |
| to put in (v1) (tr) | |
| to enter (v5) (intr) | |
| to think, to feel [about something] (v5) (tr) | |
| to come out of (opposite of 入る) (v1) (intr, but see note on transit verbs) | |
| to get out, to come out (v5) (tr) | |
| to stay at, to spend [the] night[s] (v5) (intr) | |
| to stay, to come to a halt, to stop (v5) (intr) | |
| to stop [something] (v1) (tr) | |
| to take a break from (v5) (bitr) | |
| to swim (v5) (intr, but see note on transit verbs) | |
| to fly (v5) (intr, but see note on transit verbs) |
こそあど
The translations are only approximations, what really matters is that you know the difference between what the こ-, そ-, あ- and ど- versions of a こそあど series mean.
| これ | this |
| それ | that |
| あれ | that |
| どれ | which |
| この[...] | this [...] |
| その[...] | that [...] |
| あの[...] | that [...] |
| どの[...] | which [...] |
| こう | this way, like so |
| そう | that way, like that |
| ああ | that way, like that |
| どう | which way, how |
| こんな[...] | this kind of [...] |
| そんな[...] | that kind of [...] |
| あんな[...] | that kind of [...] |
| どんな[...] | what kind of [...] |
| ここ | here |
| そこ | there |
| あそこ | over there |
| あすこ | over there |
| どこ | where |
| こちら | this direction |
| そちら | that direction |
| あちら | that direction |
| どちら | which direction |
| こっち | this direction |
| そっち | that direction |
| あっち | that direction |
| どっち | which direction |