Lesson for today

Interrogative
Vocabulary words
• What nani / nan money okane
• Where doko savings choken
• Who dare
• Who’s dare ga
• When itsu
• How much ikura
• Which dore
• Imasu living things
• Arimasu non- living things
• How nan - de ( transportation)
• Why doshite
• Because kara
Sample sentence

• Meri-san wa ashita tomodachi to kissaten de

kohi o nomimasu. ( tomorrow , Mary and a
friend drink coffee at the café)

• Nani o nomimasu ka kohi o nomimasu

• ( what will you drink?) (I’ll drink coffee)
Sample sentence
Kissaten
• Q. doko de nomimasu ka
• ( where to drink?)
• A. kissaten de nomimasu
• ( drink at the café)

• Tomodachi

Q. dare to nomimasu ka
( who to drink with ?)
A. ____________nomimasu
CONT. Sample sentence

• Q. Dare ga nomimasu ka A. Meri-san ga nomimasu

Relative time expression
• Vocabulary words
• Kino yesterday kyonen last year
• Kyo today kotoshi this year
• Ashita tomorrow rainen next year

• Senshuu last week

• Konshuu this week
• Raishuu next week[

• Sengetsu last month

• Kongetsu this month
• Raigetsu next month
Using the calendar
Exercises : ITSU ( when)
1. itsu nomimashita ka ( when to drink) …. Yesterday
A. ______________________________
2. Itsu kaimono kaimasu ka………..(tomorrow)
A. _______________________________
3. Itsu SM de ikimashita ka ……..day before yesterday
A. ______________________________
4. Itsu gakko de ikimasu ka……….today
A. _______________________________
5. Itsu Manira de ikimasu ka …..day after tomorrow
Meri-san wa sanji ni tanaka- san ni aimasu
( at three o’clock Mary meets Tanaka)

Q. Dare ni aimasu ka
A. _______________
Example:
• Dare ga aimasu ka
• Meri-san ni aimasu
Question:
• 1. nanji ni aimasu ka
• 2. nan ____ ni aimasuka ……..yokka ni aimasu
• 3. nan ____ ni aimasu ka ……. Kayoubi ni aimasu
• 4. nan_____ ni aimasu ka ……..go gatsu ni
aimasu
• 5.nan _____ ni aimasu ka …….ni sen juu yon nen
aimasu
Next situation:
• Suzuki-san wa kinyoubi meri-san to densha de
Bosuton ni ikimasu
• ( on Friday Suzuki takes the train to Boston with Mary)
Questions:
Q.doko ni ikimasu ka
A. ____ni ikimasu

Q. Nan de ikimasu ka
A. _____ de ikimasu

Q. Dare to ikimasu ka
A. _____ to ikimasu

Q. Nan youbi ni ikimasu ka

A._______ni ikimasu
Q. Dare ga ikimasu ka
A. ______ga ikimasu
 WHY? Doshite
Because : kara
• Sample: Nihongo o benkyou shiteimasu
• (I’m studying Japanes)

.Nihongo o benkyou shiteimasu ka

( are you studying Japanese)
Q. Doshite nihongo o benkyou
shiteimasu ka ( why are you studying
japanese?)
A. Nihon ni ikimasu kara ( because I’m
going to Japan)
 Interrogative and counters
• Sumimasen t-syatsu kudasai

• Nan mai desu ka

• San mai kudasai

• Example of Flat things

a. Kami paper
b. T-syatsu t-shirt
c. Kitte stamp
d. Hagaki postcard
 Interrogative and counters
• Sumimasen kasa o kudasai

• Nan bon desu ka

• San bon kudasai

• Long object
• Kasa umbrella
• Banana banana
• Pen ballpen
• Biru beer
Counting for:
• Dai - counting for car and machine
• Example : one car ichi dai
• Wa- counting for the bird
• example: one bird ichiwa
• hiki- counting for small animals
• example one rabbit ippiki
• to - counting for big animal
• nin- counting for the person
• example: one person hitoti
• 2 person futari
• 3 person san nin
•ken- counting for the house
Counting for:
• sumimasen ringo o kudasai

• ikutsu desu ka

• mittsu kudasai

• the generic counters can be used

• to count most objects except for
• people or animals
• 1 hitotsu 5 itsutsu 9 kokonotsu
• 2 futatsu 6 muttsu 10 to
• 3 mittsu 7 nanatsu for number higher
• 4 yottsu 8 yattsu than 10……..ko
counting for:
• sai- counting for age
• satsu- counting for the books
• kai- counting for floor building
• mai- counting for sheet
• ji- counting for time
Sentence pattern
•Hako no ue ni pen ga arimasu
• s d o v
•Isu no ue ni kaban ga arimasu
•San gai ni ginko ga arimasu
• n o v
Days of the week
• Sun nichiyoubi 5th itsuka
• Mon. getsuyoubi 6th muika
• Tues. kayoubi 7th nanoka
• Wed. suiyoubi 8th youka
• Thurs mokuyoubi 9th kokonoka
• Fri kinyoubi 10th to-ka
• Sat. Doyoubi 11th juuichi nichi
• 1st tsuitachi 20th hatsuka
• 2nd futsuka 24th nijuuyokka
• 3rd mikka 14th juuyokka
• 4th yokka
•Bianca-san no mae ni
dare desu ka
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