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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. Note that elementary school students are not generally called seito or gakusei, but jidou (children or juveniles). 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 |