Japanese Language Lesson 12 - Interrogatives

Please view previous lessons for additional vocabulary and grammar.
In this lesson you'll learn all about the interrogatives within the Japanese language!
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Summary:
Mary-san wa ashita tomodachi to kissaten de ko-hi- wo nomimasu.
メアリーさんはあしたともだちときっさてんでコーヒーをのみます。
Tomorrow, Mary and a friend will drink coffee at a café.
Nano wo nomimasuka?/ なにをのみますか？/ What will you drink?
Doko de nomimasuka?/ どこでのみますか？/ Where are you drinking?
Dare to nomimasuka?/ だれとのみますか？/ Who will you drink with?
Dare ga nomimasuka?/ だれがのみますか？/ Who is the one drinking?
Kinou/ きのう/ Yesterday
Kyou/ きょう/ Today
Ashita/ あした/ Tomorrow
Senshuu/ せんしゅう/ Last week
Konshuu/ こんしゅう/ This week
Raishuu/ らいしゅう/ Next week
Sengetsu/ せんげつ/ Last month
Kongetsu/ こんげつ/ This month
Raigetsu/ らいげつ/ Next month
Kyonen/ きょねん/ Last week
Kotoshi/ ことし/ This year
Rainen/ らいねん/ Next year
Itsu nomimasuka/ いつのみますか？/ When to drink?
Mary-san wa sanji ni Tanaka-san ni aimasu/ メアリーさんはさんじにたなかさんにあいます。/ Mary will meet Tanaka-san at 3 o'clock
Dare ni aimasuka/ だれにあいますか？/who are you meeting?
Dare ga aimasuka/ だれがあいますか？/ who will be meeting?
Nanji ni aimasuka/ なんじにあいますか？/what time will you be meeting?
Nannichi ni aimasuka/ なんにちにあいますか？/what day will you be meeting?
Nanyoubi ni aimasuka/ なにようびにあいますか？/what day of the week will you be meeting?
Nangatsu ni aimasuka/ なんがつにあいますか？/what month will you be meeting?
Nannen ni aimasuka/ なんねんにあいますか？/what year will you be meeting?
Suzuki-san wa kinyoubi ni Mary-san to densha de Boston ni ikimasu/すずきさんはきんようびにメアリーさんとでんしゃでボストンにいきます。/ Suzuki-san, on Friday, is going to Boston with Mary on the train.
Doko ni ikimasuka/ どこにいきますか？/ Where are you going?
Nande ikimasuka/ なんでいきますか？/ How are you going?
Dare to ikimasuka/ だれといきますか？/ Who are you going with?
Nanyoubi ni ikimasuka/ なんようびにいきますか？/ What day of the week are you going?
Darega ikimasuka/ だれがいきますか？/Who is going?
Nihongo wo benkyou shiteimasuka/ にほんごをべんきょうしていますか？/ Are you studying Japanese?
Doushite nihongo wo benkyou shiteimasuka/ どうしてにほんごをべんきょうしていますか？/ Why are you studying Japanese?
Nihon ni ikimasukara/ にほんにいきますから/ It's because I'm going to Japan.
Okane wo choking shiteimasuka/ おかねをちょきんしていますか？/ Are you saving up money?
Doushite okane wo choking shiteimasuka/ どうしておかねをちょきんしていますか？/ Why are you saving up money
Atarashii kuruma wo kaimasukara/ あたらしいくるまをかいますから/because I'm buying a new car
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[@JapanSocietyNYC]

"Dare ni" is asking "who will you meet?" "Dare ga" is asking "who's going to meet you?"

[@Sarahthecopyninja]

JapanSocietyNYC ありがとうございます、いまわかります

[@JapanSocietyNYC]

Ga is used for any information that is unknown, or new information. When using "ga", the speaker knows the information/answer but the listener does not. Ha (pronounced wa) is used for any information that is known, or old information. When using "ha", both speaker and listener know the answer.

[@chikkatetsu6034]

ikimasu - to go kimasu - to come kaerimasu- return

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[@aldiwibowo8011]

The lesson become hard and harder each time and become fast and faster too. I'm kinda miss how sensei repeat a sentence 3-4 times lol. I hope I can get along with this pace. Anyway good lesson! Arigatou gozaimasu 😅

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Clicking the screen to pause so I can read the hiragana is such a great yutu feature and it is a wonderful way to practice reading the text.

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When I first learned this last year it was very hard, but now I am starting to understand how the communication structures work. ありがとうございます先生。

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Thank you for these lessons! Also there's い missing in いきます at 5:32

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[@nerdygameinggurl]

i dont know if its me or something but i seem to go downhill with these lesson from lesson one to about 10 i can answer most of the questions correctly, but as i continue the lessons its seems to me that sensei is explaing much less and is expcting the students to understand the words... i know its kind of too much to ask for but i just want to know is it just me that is struggling with this D:

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@@axelb7775 we havent reached kanji yet tho

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[@DelicateDoors]

It helps to play the video on 1.5 speed... Japanese is generally spoken much faster so it's good listening practice :D

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Michael Dobe Jr its on the computer only. just click on the settings icon.

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I am finding this lesson difficult! Although, this is the lesson that 'encouraged me' to learn all the hiragana, so I've been going over it a few times ;D

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[@JokestheJoker]

These videos where really helping me learn until they suddenly jumped into characters :(

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Try to learn the hiragana and katakana, first then come back. I think they want you to get used to seeing the characters and not just romanji.

[@pipboy1950]

JokestheJoker you'll never be able to really understand and speak japanese until you learn kana. Which is even simple. 2 weeks commitment

[@pipboy1950]

Marie Ève One thing is to memorize them, one thing is to be able to quickly read them in a sentence. Maybe you're a Genius, but, to be good at, time is needed.

[@Burnabybuccaneer]

JokestheJoker If you're planning on learning Japanese, take the time to learn Hirigana first. Once you understand how it all works, it's actually a really simple alphabet as it's all phonetic. Katakana will be a breeze after that :) Kanji is where you really need to sit down and so some serious study and review.

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This lesson way easier than previous one

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This lesson and the ones after can be harder to some because it's building upon what they are expecting you to already know from the previous lessons/videos so you may need to go back, review, and study respectively. Yes, I agree the videos aren't perfect and brief (even with new words introduced) with examples but they are STILL a GREAT FREE foundation to getting you started and familiar. If these videos are the only thing you're using to study then you definitely need to have at least two more sources to include with these videos in your daily study in my opinion respectively. What one path can't provide another surely will. Yea it sucks studying, but it definitely pays off because these videos and other sources are building blocks to forming your own sentences once you mix up your own personal vocabulary bank and personality to articulate sentences how YOU WANT properly. Don't give up and good luck to anyone reading this, anything worth having won't be easy to attain (unless you hit the lotto and even that is subjective). If you're gonna dedicate your free time to something, always give your best to reap the benefits later. Time is precious. Thank you for these videos JapanSociety.

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[@SilverMiraii]

No problem, and another common usage of ga is to introduce a new topic. Mukashi mukashi, ojii san ga sunde imashita (once upon a time there lived an old man). Ojii san wa totemo shinsetsu deshita. (He was very kind). in the first sentence, the old man is introduced as a new topic so we use ga, and in the second sentence because we already introduced him, we use wa. There are more usages of this particle, like special usages, exceptions and stuff.

[@AlexanderMarks]

such an amazing teacher! Who is this teacher?

[@JapanSocietyNYC]

Not quite. By themselves both are casual ways of asking. To make both words more formal, you would add "desuka?" at the end of them. So it would be "nande desuka" and "doushite desuka".

[@vanta6lack]

ありがとうございます for these lessons. I'm really enjoying them. It's getting tougher by the lesson though. I'd really appreciate it if someone could answer my question. I'm using an online dictionary. They provide sentences to illustrate word usage. So there's this sentence ここになんで来たの？(How did you get here?) Why doesn't it end with か but with the question mark instead?

[@sunghyomi221]

please teach us about da ni no o wo wa ga please i need to learn how to use them

[@charlz801]

please teach us on how to answer a question during a job interview.

[@tappiera]

At 1:37 isn't there missing hiragana of 'san' ?

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i have a japanese book and it says that train is ressha. i think i heard you say dessha, so im confused which one is it?

[@saad594]

when I started learning Japanese, didn't think that one day I'd find it more difficult to read with no kanji

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thank you for the excellent videos. Just a little annotation: At minute 3.25 you said よっか but you wrote ようか in the background for thr fourth of a month.

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[@RzSnR]

Days of the week : SUNDAY= 日曜日…にちようび…Nichiyoubi (日= sun).....................MONDAY = 月曜日…げつようび…Getsuyoubi (月= moon)................TUESDAY = 火曜日…かようび……Kayoubi (火= fire)......................WEDNESDAY= 水曜日…すいようび…Suiyoubi (水= water)THURSDAY= 木曜日…もくようび…Mokuyoubi (木= tree).............FRIDAY= 金曜日…きんようび…Kinyoubi (金= money)SATURDAY= 土曜日…どようび……Doyoubi (土= earth)

[@aloitalaukawasakiakauola7321]

Dare ga = Who Dare to = with who Dare No = whose Dare NI = To Whom

[@joededimanadedi]

Arigatou Sensei. Demo, can we use both "he" and "ni" to tell where to go? For example; Boston ni ikimasu to Boston he ikimasu.

[@andresagme]

shit is getting out of control

[@Gabriel-ij2tx]

Why? You should be able to understand since you watched her previous lessons. I Cannot read or write in Japanese; however, I can understand what she is saying.

[@brenoemmanuel]

I'm take my Japanese to the next level. She is teaching in hiragana character and I am trying to change from hiragana to kangi character. どうもありがとう先生

[@SilverMiraii]

I hope you get an answer from the teacher. Meanwhile I will try to explain. For example if I say: watashi wa gaikokujin desu means, I am foreigner. but if I say, watashi GA gaikokujin desu will mean I am the foreigner, ga is a stronger subject marker. I'll give more examples, tanaka san wa boston ni ikimasu, means mister tanaka goes to boston, but if I say, tanaka san ga boston ni ikimasu, means tanaka is the one going to boston, it's pretty simple to understand trough examples I hope you got it

[@hellothere2878]

Konnichiwa! I thought shouldn't it be pronounced as nga when use in that sentence? Please teach me! Thanks!

[@luuthanhvan1442]

sensei, how can we have another lesson from you apart from these 12 lessons?

[@lyonli5035]

i noticed teacher said doko de nomimasu(for coffee shop) but doko ni ikimasu( for boston). Do you know why is the difference?

[@akiranariko8426]

can't we start with the time indicant at the beggining of the sentence for exeple saying '' ashita . mary'san wa boston ni ikimasu ''

[@beans5738]

I've been completely lost since lesson 11

[@workingclown]

At 2:44, you use "dare ni" for asking "who do you meet", then use "dare ga" on the next example. They appear to be asking the exact same question, so what's the difference?

[@taupemodele06]

Dômo arigatô gozaimasu.

[@alm6345]

phew..feel dizzy..these lessons are not for the faint of heart of weak willed. kinda like standing in the presence of Shanks! lol.Great lessons!

[@thebgd6669]

What about for “this year”? Is kono nen excepting? Or is it kotoshi?

[@yui9595]

Can we also use doko e instead of doko ni?

[@NikhilKhullar]

How to say "How" as in: How is rain written using Kanji ? Will it be: あめはかんじでどやって書きますか。 ... and then the answer would be: 雨　 Thanks for the video.

[@luisacarvalho4027]

So, basically, "ga" is for who is going to meet, and "wa" for who is going to be the person to meet? Like, in other context, "ga" for who practice the action and "wa" for whom the action is done?

[@haydenmorton7]

When I finish I'm going to watch it again so I don't forget all of it within a week😅

[@chikkatetsu6034]

shiteimasu ? means what? kaimasu ? means what? please answer.

[@curlytana01]

agreed also.. yori hoshii de e mo

[@symmaque]

what's the difference between dare and nanimono ?

[@sathishbabu4278]

Why am i not able to save offline?

[@shaneyawlover]

Is nande just a less formal version of doushite?

[@denhemligafilmen]

didn't lesson 10 go through them?