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SS10: Sake Barrel

14 Formal Kanji
Formal Kana
Formal Romanization
English
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Vocabulary 3
Grammar Points 4
 
  

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Formal Romanization
Mamoru Uw ] 6^ 6_ 6` 8a db c 6e 6f 8g b 6f 6h 6i c
Masaru Nan dar j 6g 6k 
c dl 6m 6j c
Mamoru Uw ]6n^6f6m6f6o6f6h6_o6]6cp6_6`6a8bm6f6q6_o6fg6k6cr6f6q6a6k6s6j6c
Masaru Ichi.Ni.San.Yon......Hyaku-hachi-ju-kko mo aru yo. Sugg i6c
Mamoru Nan de koko ni, konna ni aru n dar 6j c

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Masaru Nan de dar jg6k6c

Mamoru Demo Nihonshu tte, meigara ikutsu aru n dar jg6k6c
Masaru Zenkoku ni, yaku nisen no kuramoto (sake o tsukuru basho)
ga aru rashii yo. Dakara, meigara wa kazoerarenai kurai
aru n ja nai ka na. J ]6n
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Mamoru 6clds6fo6fs6a6c

English
Mamoru Wow. What's that?
Masaru I wonder what that is. Let's go.
Mamoru Wow. It's a sake barrel. I wonder how many there are!
Let's count them!
Masaru One, two, three, four... There's 180 of them. Wow!
Mamoru Why are there so many here?
Masaru I don't know?
Mamoru I wonder how many brands of sake there are.
Masaru Apparently, there are about 2,000 sake brewers across
Japan. So we probably can't count that the number of sake
brands out there. Mamoru, why don't you look it up.
Mamoru What? I don't want to.

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Vocabulary
Kanji
 Kana
 Romaji English
 ME# sugoi awesome
- . T BC sakadaru wine cask or barrel
 1 2 
U    / meigara
zenkoku
brand
country-wide,
9 : / C " X nationwide
3 V / kuramoto sake brewer
IJ # DCJ # yaku approximately
L V shiraberu to investigate
   # E O   # iya
kazoeru
unpleasant
to count

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Vocabulary Sample Sentences


-.F'E Which is the brand leader?
Ninki meigara wa dore desu ka?

Grammar Points
(i)
 
  ; ikj A
  ; ikj ) is the plain volitional form of  
/  iku). The volitional form of
verbs is often used to express volition on the part of the first person or to
invite someone to try and do something (for the first time). In today's dialog,
it is used to invite someone to do something.
Class Plain Non-past Plain Volitional Polite Non-past Polite

I
 /      Volitional
D\
ikj ikimashj
II
iku
#  
ikimasu
D\
miyj mimashj
III
miru
# D D 
mimasu
D D\
shiyj shimashj
4
suru shimasu

*To form the conjugation of Class I verbs, change the final syllable of the
dictionary form of the verb from the u-column to the o-column of the same row, and
append the syllable u. See the following chart.
Plain Non-past Change Final Append u Plain Volitional
Syllable
(u-column to
 / /
o-column)
      
iku ku 6m a 7 " 
iko+u ikj " 
"
nomu mu 6 a nomo+u nomj

  7
)  )   
  = D 
Examples:

Kondo no nichiyj 8  db n 6s 6f 6m s  a ^ 8 db 6s j 

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Let's play baseball next Sunday!


F= J 

O-hiru go-han wa karia
6f6k6s6j6c
Why don't we eat curry for lunch?

(ii)
/0# 
  darj is the volitional form of the Japanese copula de aru, roughly
equating to probably. Darj and its polite form deshj are used to express that the
speaker's statement is conjecture based on some previous information or knowledge.

   j
dar can be used in a question using an interrogative word or asking if
/0 
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the speaker's conjecture is right. Especially in the case of the sentence in
k b 
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g 6 k 6 6f 6_ 6^ 
k b 
today's dialog "
ends with particle
 
ne). Ne is a sentence ending particle that acts as a tag
question used to provoke a response from the listening party, usually confirmation
of or agreement with the speakers statement, regarding a topic of mutual
knowledge.

Examples:

5  7 
 7  /
0    
Ano otoko no hito, ikutsu dar j 6g 6k c
How old is that man?

  
K F  + X  D   
Natsuyasumi wa kitto tanoshii dar j 6g 6k c
The summer vacation is going to be fun, isn't it?

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