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This entry was posted on Thursday, July 19th, 2007 at 7:00 pm and is filed under Intermediate Season 1 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
14 Responses to “Intermediate Lesson #62 - My Tokyo Traveblogue - Day 18”
Thursday at 7:00 pm
Mina-san, what do you think about Agnes’ situation? ちょっと大変ですね!
Thursday at 8:25 pm
二 日 だ け ? 大 変 ! い つ も 気 が 変 わ る の ボ ッ ス が い る こ と を 面 倒 に な る そ う 。 。 。
did that make any sense? “having a boss that always changes his mind seems to complicate matters…” hmm…
haha -で も 一 生 懸 命 が ん ば っ た !
gj jpod101 team!
あ り が と う ね !
Thursday at 9:25 pm
I haven’t listened to the lesson yet, but a tip for Yizzoさん: your computer seems to have been set to double spacing! You have a space between each Japanese character. I don’t know how you did it but I do it by accident sometimes and everything comes out w i e r d , l i k e t h i s .
All credit for using a grammar point from this week though! (一生懸命, from the 運動会 lessons)
Thursday at 9:30 pm
haha I didn’t realise 一生懸命 was on this weeks lessons…but lets pretend i did
yeh, double spacing was because i was typing a jap speech (easier to see if i set it on “double spacing” option)
thx for the tip!
Friday at 12:09 am
アグネスは間に合うかな?デザインオフィスJで眠らなくちゃいけない。たくさんコーヒーを飲むといいです! がんばって。
I didnt listen to the dialoge yet either, but reading the script was helpful again! As always.
今日は私の誕生日!
私の彼女が ”正しい漢字かきとりくん” を買ってくれた!
Anyone at JP101 try it yet? Its really great!
Good job again!
Friday at 12:54 am
TempleUniJP 誕生日おめでとうございます!
Friday at 10:44 am
誕生日おめでとう!
日本は二十四時間の電車がないと思わなかった。
I’m sure if they did, there’d be a lot of protests from salarymen who wouldn’t want to be made to work through till the early morning.
レッソンで、{食べられる」と言う言葉が出てきて、質問がある:「たべられる」と「たべれる」はどう違いますか?
Friday at 5:12 pm
maxiewawa さん
こんにちは。なおみです。
The difference between 食べられる and 食べれる is a very very controversial topic.
Some scholar says 食べれる is a grammatically wrong expression, some says it’s correct.
Anyway, 食べれる is usually used in a sentence indicating potential to eat (edible).
食べられる is used in a sentence indicating passive or honorific.
EX) 社長は魚を(or が)食べれる。
Shachou wa sakana o (or ga) tabereru. →potential
The president can eat fish.
社長は魚を食べられる。
Shchou ga sakana o taberareru.→honorific
Mr. president eats fish.
魚は人に食べられる。
Sakana wa hito ni taberareru.
Fish is eaten by human. →passive
According to “a dictionary of basic japanese grammar”, 食べれる is used only in informal conversation.
Friday at 6:32 pm
食べれるはナオミ先生に説明をよくされました。ありがとう!
Saturday at 6:55 am
Two points, “rareru” can also be used as an honorific can it not? Such as iwaremashita “honorably said”. Also, why must the honorable shachosama of Japanesepod101 be such slavedrivers? kuiaretame ho ga ii desho ne
Tuesday at 2:24 am
A question about potential. For the word ‘able to write’ can you use both ‘kakareru’ and ‘kakeru’?
What is the difference?
Tuesday at 4:35 pm
こんにちは。なおみです。
” to iwaremashita.
” to osshaimashita.
Neil-san
>>> “rareru” can also be used as an honorific can it not? Such as iwaremashita “honorably said”.
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はい。Yes. You are right.
“iwaremashita” = “(someone) honorably said”-honorific, or “(I was) told”-passive
ex)
Neil said “You’d better repent for your sins.”
Neil san wa “Kuiaratameta hou ga ii.
or you can also use “ossharu”
Neil san wa “Kuiaratameta hou ga ii.
“ossharu” is a special honorific word for “iu”
markw-san
>>>For the word ‘able to write’ can you use both ‘kakareru’ and ‘kakeru’?
↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓↓
いいえ。No. For verb conjugation for passive, basically we change verb ending -u (group 1) to -eru and verb ending -ru (group 2) to -rareru.
ex)
[group1] u→eru
ka u →ka e ru
ka ku →ka ke ru
ha na su →ha na se ru
[group2] u →areru
ta be ru → ta be ra rer u
ne ru → ne ra re ru
[group3]
su ru → de ki ru
ku ru → ko ra re ru
In summary, “kakareru” means “something is written” or “someone honorably writes”. and “kakeru” means “be able to write”
I hope it makes sense to you.
Sunday at 1:44 am
very useful lesson, thanks
Tuesday at 6:16 am
Well now at least I know why I kept thinking both 食べられるand 食べれるmeant the same thing — because they can! Whew!
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