Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! Walking back to your apartment in Japan, you suddenly remember you must make a doctor’s appointment for a physical. Your new employer requires that you take a physical to qualify for the company health and life insurance programs, and you have to get your physical this week. Using your new Japanese cell phone, you call the doctor’s office. You hear the receptionist say in Japanese, “This is the doctor’s office. How can I help you?” You hope your answer is understandable Japanese, “I’d like to make an appointment for a physical. I can come in from eleven to two in the afternoon.” Her answer comes immediately, “Of course, we do many physicals for company insurance programs. In fact, we have one doctor who dedicates half of his day just to giving physicals for school and work starting at twelve in the afternoon and continuing until six in the evening to accommodate people that can’t get off work to get them.” In Japanese, you answer, “Can I come in tomorrow sometime from four to six o’clock?” The helpful receptionist answers in Japanese, “I’m sorry; we’re all booked for tomorrow, but we’re not booked from Monday to Wednesday at that time. Could you come in on one of those days?” “Sure,” you answer in Japanese, “I’ll come in on Monday at six o’clock.”
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24 Responses to “Particles #6 - Learn Japanese Time Particles Kara, Made, and Ni in a Particle of Time!”
Wednesday at 6:30 pm
みなさん,
Here’s a question for you!
何時から何時まで寝ますか?
Nanji kara nanji made nemasu ka?
From what time to what time do you sleep? Please use から and まで
Wednesday at 9:06 pm
ふつは11時から朝7時まで寝ます。でも、今の仕事が規則的ではなくて、寝る時間も毎日変わります。
Wednesday at 9:41 pm
私は 午前 一時から 午前 七時まで ねま。
Wednesday at 9:44 pm
私は 午前 一時から 午前 七時まで ねます。
Thursday at 12:27 am
11時から朝7時まで寝ます。でも、最近、 大学はとっても忙しいので時々午前 1時から7時までねます。:???:
すごいレッスン^^
勉強になりました^^
ありがとう
Thursday at 3:11 am
11時から7時まで寝るつもりですが…代わりにテレビを見ます。
昨日歯科と診察を勉強しましたので (JFBP 3-7)
このレッスンを聞いたら、びっくりしました。
Thursday at 5:18 am
Found this.
Check it out:
http://www.eslteachersboard.com/cgi-bin/japan-info/index.pl?read=1668
Thursday at 9:45 am
Wow, a lot of people answered 11-7! Actually, those hours are about the same for me as well..
Thursday at 1:33 pm
私は普通、午前一時から午前八時までねます。
Thursday at 11:47 pm
私は仕事をしなければ、午後九時半から六時までねっていますが、週末は八時までたいてい寝ます。
Friday at 1:44 pm
私は普通午前十二時から午前八時まで寝ます。
では、また!
Saturday at 5:06 am
時々1/2am から,7am まで寝てたら、仕事があります。
(Was trying to say “sometimes 1/2am—7am, if I have work to go to, not sure if that’s right.
Also, now I need to figure out how to say “if not/otherwise/else”)
I noticed the character 着き、though “put on”と思います・・・
The dictionary says it means “to arrive” too? Strange reasoning for this kanji.
Is anyone confused about what particles are even for? That was the hardest thing for me to get into my head, but I got a good tip from someone who used to teach Japanese and majored in it in school. He said: Particles are like doorways in an old japanese house, they take you from one part of the sentence to another. Here’s a diagram (please correct me if I made any mistakes with spelling, etc.)
http://jacobhalton.com/images/particles.gif
Sunday at 6:24 am
hello. thanks for the lesson, it was very useful.
today I’d like to ask what’s the difference between -kai and -do, can you use them indistinctly?, when should I use one or the other?
thanks for your answer, ja nee
Monday at 3:15 pm
Would it be correct to say that if you don’t use “on”, “in”, “at” when referring to time in English, then you also don’t use “ni” when saying the same thing in Japanese. e.g. you’d never say in English “I am going to Japan in next year”, or “I will meet you at today”. Would you use “ni” for times such as “noon”, 2011, or the equivalent of “I will see you in 3 weeks”?
Tuesday at 10:55 am
Tess-san
Thank you for putting a great study tip as always!!
Actually, when I was a student teacher at a high school in Australia, my mentor teacher was teaching like that.
Of course there are exceptions (such as “in the morning”, but we don’t usually say “Asa ni”) but I though it was a good way to remember since it works most of the time.
For “noon”; I know you say “at noon”, but we usually just say “hiru” meaning noon. It “Hiru” means “lunch time” or “lunch”, then it’s perfectly natural to put “ni” in front.
)
For year; “in 2011″ = 2010年に
For “In” before time duration; I believe the usage of the “in” as in “in 3 weeks” is bit different from the “in” as in “in 2011″. The “in” as in “in 3 weeks” means “after” or “within”, right?(I’m not a native English speaker, so correct me if I’m wrong.
So we say “3 Shuukan go ni” or “3 shuukan inai ni” meaning “after 3weeks” and “within 3 weeks” respectively.
I hope this makes sense.
Tuesday at 12:00 pm
alejandro-san
“counters for occurrences”, 回-kai and 度-do are interchangeable.
Tuesday at 12:04 pm
J です-san
Your sentence
>>>時々1/2am から,7am まで寝てたら、仕事があります。(Was trying to say “sometimes 1/2am—7am, if I have work to go to, not sure if that’s right.
→たら means “If”, but unlike English”if”, “tara” follows the conditional.
So your sentence should be…
仕事があったら、(If I have work to do)
1時から7時まで寝ます(I sleep from one to seven.)
I hope this helps.
Sunday at 2:39 am
@なおみ先生ー質問があります。
If I wanted to say “for how long” how could I say that?
For example: “I slept for 7 hours.”
or: “My new car worked for 1 week, then broke.”
I know it’s probably not related to the particle lesson, but it’s related to telling time.
Thanks for correcting my comment before btw
Monday at 10:56 am
J です-san
To tell “for how long” you need to know how to tell time duration.(counters for time duration)
Time duration is covered in Newbie series season2 Lesson 18 and Beginner series season4 lesson27. So please reference these lessons for the detailed explanation.
Here are some counters for times.
hours = -jikan
weeks= -shuukan
months=-kagetsu
“I slept for 7 hours” is 七時間寝ました。(Shichi-jikan/nana-jikan nemashita.)
七時間(shijijikan) is “seven hours”. 寝ました(nemashita) is “slept.”
You don’t usually need any particles after time duration.
Tuesday at 9:43 pm
Naomi先生、
Jessi先生、
もう一度(もう一回
)レッスンはすごく面白かったです。ありがとう。
だからと言って質問があります。「で」って言う助詞は何時使いますか?
「9時で映画は始まります。」は正しくないですか?
じゃまた。
コンスタンティン
Wednesday at 9:10 am
コンスタンティンさん,
コメントをありがとうございます
To answer your question, 「で」 cannot be used when talking about what time something will take place. Instead, we use 「に」 when talking about time. So your example sentence would have to be 「9時に映画が始まります」 to be correct.
Thursday at 7:55 am
私は、夜12時から、朝6時まで寝る。
太陽の電気があったら、自分で起きられる。(めざまし(alarm clock)を使わないよ)
Monday at 11:02 am
Alfonso-san
“light of the sun” or “sunshine” “太陽の光”.
電気 is “electric light”
そうですね~。太陽の光で起きるのはいちばんいいですね!
Being awaken by sunshine is the much better feeling than awaken by alarm clock ring.
Thursday at 10:56 am
I sleep from 3 am to 7.30 am because I can’t stop learning japanese. After I check the lesson tomorrow I’ll leave a comment in japanese
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