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Lesson 10: I study every
day.
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| The word for school is gakkou. Teachers are sensei and students are gakusei (or seito). College is daigaku (literally "big school"). A college student is daigakusei. In order to say what grade you are in, or whether you're a freshman-senior, you say "I'm a --year student." Where -- is replaced with the correct year. | |
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ichinensei nen Ninensei desu. |
first year student year I'm a second year student. |
| For some other useful school vocabulary go here. To say "I am a student at the University of ----" you say: ---- daigaku no gakusei desu. or ---- daigaku no seito desu. This also works for other types of schools like high schools, junior highs and elementary schools. Just insert the name of the school in place of ---- and the type of school in place of daigaku. West koukou no seito desu. I'm a West High School student. Recall from Lesson
6 that Nihongo o benkyou shimasu. means 'I study Japanese.'
Recall from Lesson 7
that the basic Japanese sentence structure is TTOPV. This stands for
Topic/Time Object Place Verb. We will now add a few more general times
to our sentences. |
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| Examples: mainichi kinou asatte |
every day yesterday the day after tomorrow |
| Students of course also do a lot of shukudai (homework). To do homework is shukudai o shimasu. The verb "to do" is shimasu. Let's try a few sample sentences now. | |
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Examples: Mainichi, nihongo o renshuu shimasu. |
Every day I practice Japanese. |
| Mainichi, eigo o benkyou shimasu. |
I study English every day. |
| Asatte, nihongo o renshuu shimasu. | I
will practice Japanese the day after tomorrow. |
| Kinou, suugaku o benkyou shimashita. | Yesterday, I studied math. |
| Asatte, nihongo no shukudai o shimasu. | The
day after tomorrow I will do Japanese homework. |
| Kinou, suugaku no shukudai o shimasen deshita. | I didn't do the math homework yesterday. |
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ichinensei nen mainichi daigaku benkyou shimasu |
year every day university/college to study |