Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Your friend asks in Japanese, “How are we going to get through our new class? That teacher seems really tough. What do you think of her?” Your Japanese answer hides your real thoughts, “I don’t know; it shouldn’t be too difficult. I think our teacher really wants us to succeed, and if she wants us to succeed, she’ll do what’s necessary to help us learn. She really knows all about the material and the subject. She has an advanced degree. Her previous classes really like her. Sure, she looks like she’ll be harsh, but I’m sure she has our best interests at heart. She’s available after hours for extra work if you need it. Some of the exercises she uses in the classroom she devised herself and they have won awards for innovation in education. Her Japanese is perfect, so there’s no problem understanding what she’s saying. She has even arranged special field trips so we can see how the things she teaches are applied out in the world. I think her class will be really good.” Your friend looks at you with suspicion and asks in Japanese, “Say, how do you know so much about this teacher? She’s new this year. How can you know all that stuff about her and her teaching methods?” Quietly, you reply in Japanese, “Because she’s my Mom.”
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22 Responses to “Particles #3 - Japanese Particle No: There’s a New Teacher in the Room!”
Wednesday at 6:30 pm
みなさん、こんにちは☆
The particle の has a lot of uses, doesn’t it!
Please ask us any questions you may have here!
Wednesday at 10:02 pm
大阪 の Siva です
私 の 母 は しんせつ です
日本語 の 先生 の なおみさん は JPOD101 で はたらいて います
Wednesday at 11:46 pm
lol, @”英語が入ります”の会話、生徒さんの声は少し違いました。;-)
So, if i’m not mistaken. In terms of possession, if the the subject matter is known one can drop it. So essentially:
, I’m just wondering if native speakers are allowed to?
A: これはBさんのコーヒーですか。
B: はい、私のです。
So in English I can think of this as going from “It’s my coffee” to “It’s mine”. However, in English we can be even lazier and simply say “mine”. So, can one be equally lazy in Japanese:
B: はい、のです。
Not that I ever would
ありがとうございます。
Thursday at 1:10 am
DEAR SIR/MAM
PLEASE START AGAIN FREE JAPANESE LESSON AT 101 POD.COM.
THANKS
Thursday at 10:18 am
Thursday at 11:28 am
僕の体が痛いんだ
僕の顔か打撲傷が付いてるよ
Thursday at 2:05 pm
Thanks I enjoyed the lesson very much. Now I really understand the use of “no” in the Japanese language. I look forward to more lessons in the series. Thank you.
Friday at 7:31 am
I am Lost:???::???::???::???:
Friday at 3:00 pm
Great lesson on the の particle. I understood all the usages really well except the one you describe as the “Explanatory Remarks”. Is the usage of の in this way only ever between a noun and a name, or are there other examples of this particular usage?
オーストラリア の テス
Friday at 3:57 pm
graeme: In the example you gave, one could say:
「はい、そうです。」or 「そうです。」 but would never say,
B: はい、のです。
even if you’re a native speaker. Not that I’m a native speaker myself, but I believe that の marks an object or person. Actually, in the sample you gave, if the question is:
A: これはBさんのコーヒーですか? (Is this your coffee?)
and you want a short reply, you could just say.
はい. (Yes)
そうです。(that’s right) would be inferred.
Tuesday at 8:20 am
Are you guys gonna make a lesson about “[の]ほうが”? that’s really confusing to me.
Other requests:
「と」(おもいます)
「も」(すこし)
I forget if i asked before, sorry to bug you guys but if you could explain the more advanced uses of particles it would really help. Will the particle series be a long series?
Thanks,
J
Tuesday at 10:20 am
simplejoysさん,
Indeed you cannot say はい、のです. You need something before the の.
Thanks for your answer! It is spot on
J ですさん,
We have a whole lesson dedicated to comparing items using のほうが and より coming in this series. This series contains 25 lessons, so yes, we will be explaining the particles in-depth. This isn’t the last you’ll hear of は, が, and の…
Tuesday at 10:20 am
J です -san
Thank you for the comment!
の in のほうが is a part of a sentence structure.
I recommend that you review the comparison lesson.Comparison is covered in Beginner Series season 4 lesson 20.
http://www.japanesepod101.com/2008/11/18/beginner-lesson-s4-20-how-does-your-japanese-compare/
>quotation particle と will be covered in this series.
>もすこし???? Did you mean もうすこし? If so, もう is not a particle, but it’s an adverb meaning “more”.
I’m not sure how advanced lessons you want, but this is a 25 lesson series.後半はもう少し難しくなっていきますよ。
Tuesday at 10:35 am
Tessさん,
Yes, it looks like the main usage for the “explanatory remarks” 「の」 is between a noun and a name. That is the most natural sounding way to use it
Monday at 9:41 pm
which sentence right
if I say student at cairo universty
カイロの 大学の 学生
or
カイロ大学の 学生
Tuesday at 10:05 am
wael -san
● カイロの 大学 [ Kairo no daigaku] literally means “Cairo’s university” and it’s translated as “university in Cairo”. It doesn’t necessary mean Cairo university. It could be other university located in Cairo.
● カイロ大学 [ Kairo daigaku ] is “Cairo university” and it’s a proper noun.
I hope this make sense.
Monday at 9:09 am
なおみ先生、
One further question for your Monday morning.
Do you ever use the word 愚図愚図 ぐずぐず
My Tagaini Jisho has it but J101 dict / GOOGLE TRANSLATE / Denshi Jisho on line
do not have this word. Thus I would assume that it is uncommon.
ごめんえ
Monday at 1:05 pm
chris-san
Guzuguzu? That’s a super common expression!!!
It should be in the dictionary. (Rikaichan and ALC has this word.)
I’m not in charge of Jpod dictionary project, but I believe that our word bank has only the vocabulary which already appeared in the Japanesepod101 lessons. So it’s a bit different from a regular dictionary..
Thursday at 4:27 pm
Chrisさん,
Just to add to Naomi先生’s comment, ぐずぐず is always written in hiragana or katakana. I have never seen the kanji used. Try searching in hiragana!
Friday at 7:36 am
カト先生、
ありがとうございます!
More questions (:
In this particle series - which I am listening to day and night - over and over and over again : (-
I am picking up the background conversation - which is just as important as the dialogue.
So here is my latest question
Jessie says in relation to her cooking that she “would like to get good at it ..”うまくなりたい”
Is that the correct hiragana ? AND I imagine that I can use that phrase generally.
So . Namoi replies …”じょうずなりたいでしよね” so is that like “you will improve I am sure”
Kanji 上手 ? right
毎日、毎日、勉強しています、:)
皆さん, 本当に、ありがとうございます
Friday at 2:41 pm
chris san,
Good work!
We spell out “would like to get good at it ..” as “うまくなりたい.”
The second one is “上手になりたいでしょうね.”
It express that Naomi-sensei understands jessie-san’s feeling.
I hope this helps.
日本語の勉強、これからもがんばって下さいね。
Saturday at 8:32 am
Hi,
I have spent a lot of time trying to understand particles in the last few years I have been studying Japanese. I have all these books like “Understanding Particles” and “Particles Workbook”. They just don’t explain particles on a level that is easy to understand. I can not thank you all enough for making a section on particles. I am listening to the podcast and then reading the notes and getting all the questions right on the first try! You all know how to teach! Thanks again!
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