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INTRODUCTION
John: Hi everyone, I'm John.
Risa: And I'm Risa.
John: And welcome to Must-Know Japanese Sentence Structures, Season 1, Lesson 34 - Expressing Hope.
John: In this lesson, you'll learn how to use a sentence pattern for expressing your hope for something.
PATTERN
John: For example,
John: "I hope it will be sunny tomorrow."
Risa: 明日晴れるといいですね。 (Ashita hareru to ii desu ne.)
Risa: [slow] 明日晴れるといいですね。 (Ashita hareru to ii desu ne.)
John: The pattern for expressing your hope for something has four elements. First, an informal sentence that expresses what you hope, meaning "It will be sunny tomorrow."
Risa: 明日晴れる (Ashita hareru).
John: Second, a quotation marker,
Risa: と (to).
John: Third, the adjective meaning "good" followed by a linking verb,
Risa: いいです (ii desu).
John: And last, a sentence-ending particle, acting as a tag question, for example "~right?".
Risa: ね (ne).
John: Altogether, we have... "I hope it will be sunny tomorrow."
Risa: 明日晴れるといいですね。 (Ashita hareru to ii desu ne.) [slow] 明日晴れるといいですね。 (Ashita hareru to ii desu ne.) [normal] 明日晴れるといいですね。 (Ashita hareru to ii desu ne.)
John: The sentence pattern for saying "I hope that..." in Japanese is a sentence that expresses what you hope in the informal non-past tense plus the quotation marker
Risa: と (to),
John: followed by the adjective meaning "good" and a linking verb
Risa: いいです (ii desu).
John: And finally, a sentence-ending particle, acting as a tag question (as in, "~right?").
Risa: ね (ne).
John: So "I hope it will be sunny tomorrow." would be
Risa: 明日晴れるといいですね。 (Ashita hareru to ii desu ne.)
John: So, to express hope for something, remember to first say what you hope, in an informal non-past sentence, plus
Risa: と (to),
John: and at the end
Risa: いいですね (ii desune).
John: Here is another example meaning, "I hope it goes well." First, an informal sentence, meaning "It goes well."
Risa: うまくいく (Umaku iku).
John: Second, a quotation marker,
Risa: と (to).
John: Third, the adjective meaning "good" plus a linking verb,
Risa: いいです (ii desu).
John: And last, a sentence-ending particle, acting as a tag question.
Risa: ね (ne).
John: Altogether we have...
Risa: うまくいくといいですね。 (Umaku iku to ii desu ne.) [slow] うまくいくといいですね。 (Umaku iku to ii desu ne.) [normal] うまくいくといいですね。 (Umaku iku to ii desu ne.)
John: "I hope it goes well."
[pause]
Risa: うまくいくといいですね。 (Umaku iku to ii desu ne.)
John: How do you say, "I hope your wife will be happy." To give you a hint, "to be happy" is...
Risa: 喜ぶ (yorokobu). [slow] 喜ぶ (yorokobu). [normal] 喜ぶ (yorokobu).
John: "I hope your wife will be happy."
[pause]
Risa: 奥さんが喜ぶといいですね。 (Okusan ga yorokobu to ii desu ne.) [slow] 奥さんが喜ぶといいですね。 (Okusan ga yorokobu to ii desu ne.) [normal] 奥さんが喜ぶといいですね。 (Okusan ga yorokobu to ii desu ne.)
[pause]
Risa: 奥さんが喜ぶといいですね。 (Okusan ga yorokobu to ii desu ne.)
REVIEW
John: Let's review the sentences from this lesson. I will give you the English equivalent of the phrase and you are responsible for shouting it out loud in Japanese. Here we go.
John: "I hope it will be sunny tomorrow."
[pause]
Risa: 明日晴れるといいですね。 (Ashita hareru to ii desu ne.)
[pause]
Risa: 明日晴れるといいですね。 (Ashita hareru to ii desu ne.)
John: "I hope it goes well."
[pause]
Risa: うまくいくといいですね。 (Umaku iku to ii desu ne.)
[pause]
Risa: うまくいくといいですね。 (Umaku iku to ii desu ne.)
John: "I hope your wife will be happy."
[pause]
Risa: 奥さんが喜ぶといいですね。 (Okusan ga yorokobu to ii desu ne.)
[pause]
Risa: 奥さんが喜ぶといいですね。 (Okusan ga yorokobu to ii desu ne.)

Outro

John: Okay. That's all for this lesson. You learned a pattern for expressing your hope for something, as in...
Risa: 明日晴れるといいですね。 (Ashita hareru to ii desu ne.)
John: meaning "I hope it will be sunny tomorrow."
John: You can find more vocab or phrases that go with this sentence pattern in the lesson notes. So please be sure to check them out on JapanesePod101.com. Thanks everyone, see you next time!
Risa: またね!(Mata ne!).

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