Japanology - KU Leuven

 Through prefixes and suffixes, you can expand your Japanese vocabulary and grammar knowledge, and form new words, sentences, etc. 1.1 HONORING PREFIX お～ AND ご～ Both are used to specify that you are talking about something related to someone involved such as 'your', when talking to someone else. お～ is used for authentic Japanese words, and ご～ for words that are semi-Japanese and originate from languages like Chinese. For example: 'my friend' is simply ともだち. 'Your friend' is おともだち. 'My country' is くに, and 'your country' is おくに. せんもん (meaning subject/specialization/class) is a word of Chinese origin. When referring to a subject you yourself take, you use 'せんもん', but when referring to someone else's subject, use 'ごせんもん'. NEVER use the prefixes お～ and ご～ when talking about yourself! That's just wrong. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 1.2 NATIONALITY SUFFIX ～人 (じん) 人 is the kan...

 The counter for 'hour' is the suffix ～じ. For minutes, use the suffix ～ふん / ～ぷん after a number. You can say it's half past XX hours in two ways: XX:30 = XXじ　さんじっぷん XX:30 = XXじ　はん You usually won't need to specify the time of day (AM, PM) thanks to context, but they are good to know: ごぜん = AM - before noon あさ = AM - in the morning, specifically ごご = PM - post noon FOR EXAMPLE: 5am = あさごじ / 9am = あさきゅうじ or ごぜんきゅうじ / 5pm = ごごごじ

 We learned to count from 1-1.000.000, as part of our homework and in class. Now try it for yourself!  Cover the right part of this post as to hide the answers, and try writing the following numbers out, or saying them out loud: a) 405 a)   よんひゃく　ご b) 2,946 b) にせん　きゅうひゃく　よんじゅう　ろく c) 3,899 c) さんぜん　はっぴゃく　きゅうじゅう　きゅう (or く at the end instead of the last きゅう) d) 64,311 d)   ろくまん　よんせん　さんびゃく　じゅういち e) 304,953 e) さんじゅうまん　よんせん　きゅうひゃく　ごじゅう　さん f) 7,059,007 f) ななひゃく　ごまん　きゅうせん　なな (or しち at the end instead of なな) Did you score okay out of 6? :3

 BOOK: Modern Japans I Taalkunde: Grammatica en Oefeningen Words from page 2: *note: よしゅう specifically refers to the preparations you would do for school/a lesson. Not ‘meal preparations, for example’ :3 Words from page 3: NOUNS: COUNTRIES: *notice that かんこく is exclusively South Korea. North Korea =　きたちょうせん PEOPLE AND PROFESSIONS/TITLES: Words from page 4: TIME-RELATED VOCABS: QUESTIONS: OTHERS:

いろ - color (kleur) あか - red (rood) オレンジ (read as orenji) - orange (oranje) きいろ - yellow (geel) みどり - green (groen) あお - blue (blauw) むらさき - purple/violet (paars) ピンク (read as pinku) - pink (roze) - written as ももいろ on pg.30, but this is the traditional way of saying pink, and it's not as common as ピンク, nowadays. ちゃいろ - brown (bruin) しろ - white (wit) はいいろ - gray (grijs) - グレー (read as guree)  is another way of saying 'gray' くろ - black (zwart) To say a color in it's 'light' form, such as 'light blue', add うす- before the color in question. Examples: うすあお、うすみどり、うすむらさき. きんいろ - gold color ぎにろ - silver color