I can do everything the module was for: greet people and ask them to repeat, say who I am and where I'm from, and name my family members and their ages.
What we review
What we review
There are no new rules in this lesson: check that everything the module was for has stuck.
• The particle は marks the topic and is read as わ; the predicate with です comes at the end.
• The particle も (“too”) replaces は; the two never go together.
• The particle の works like English 's: the owner comes first.
• Your own family: plain words (はは); someone else's: polite words (おかあさん).
• Ages 1, 8, 10, and 20 don't follow the rule: いっさい, はっさい, じゅっさい, はたち.
A sentence with the predicate です
The word order stays the same; only the end changes.
| What you say | Model | What changes |
|---|---|---|
| affirmative | やまださんはいしゃです。 | です at the end |
| negative | やまださんはいしゃじゃないです。 | です → じゃないです |
| question | やまださんはいしゃですか。 | か is added at the end |
| answer | はい、そうです／いいえ、ちがいます | “yes, that's right” / “no, that's not right” |
Numbers from 0 to 10
For 4, 7, and 9, the second reading is used in times and dates (module 4); zero is read れい in numbers such as phone numbers.
| Figure | Kanji | Reading | Second reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | — | ゼロ | れい |
| 1 | 一 | いち | — |
| 2 | 二 | に | — |
| 3 | 三 | さん | — |
| 4 | 四 | よん | し |
| 5 | 五 | ご | — |
| 6 | 六 | ろく | — |
| 7 | 七 | なな | しち |
| 8 | 八 | はち | — |
| 9 | 九 | きゅう | く |
| 10 | 十 | じゅう | — |
Lesson notes
What we review
There are no new rules in this lesson: check that everything the module was for has stuck.
• The particle は marks the topic and is read as わ; the predicate with です comes at the end.
• The particle も (“too”) replaces は; the two never go together.
• The particle の works like English 's: the owner comes first.
• Your own family: plain words (はは); someone else's: polite words (おかあさん).
• Ages 1, 8, 10, and 20 don't follow the rule: いっさい, はっさい, じゅっさい, はたち.