Comments on: Particles #6 - Learn Japanese Time Particles Kara, Made, and Ni in a Particle of Time!

by: トーマス

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:09:24 +0000

日曜日／平日、夜1時から6時まで寝ます。金曜と土曜日に夜2時から朝8時まで寝ます。

by: Rukia

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:56:40 +0000

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

by: Naomi

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 02:02:46 +0000

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.

by: Alfonso

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:55:57 +0000

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）

by: Jessi

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:10:35 +0000

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.

by: コンスタンティン

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:43:18 +0000

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

by: Naomi

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:56:21 +0000

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.

by: J です

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:39:26 +0000

＠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

by: Naomi

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:04:54 +0000

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.

by: Naomi

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:00:45 +0000

alejandro-san
“counters for occurrences”, 回-kai and　度-do are interchangeable.

by: Naomi

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:55:43 +0000

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.

by: Tess

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:15:28 +0000

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”?

by: alejandro

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:24:10 +0000

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

by: J です

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:06:36 +0000

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

by: Wai Huan

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:44:59 +0000

私は普通午前十二時から午前八時まで寝ます。

では、また！