Anybody Can Do It! Japanese Lesson 5: Hiragana Row 5

な = na
に = ni
ぬ = nu
ね = ne
の = no

なに（何） = What?

なにがすきですか。
何が好きですか。
What do you like? (The subject is omitted from this sentence. It is assumed that you would say this TO a person so you don't have to use the word for "You". This is quite common in Japanese)

いぬ（犬） = Dog

犬が大好きです。
いぬがだいすきです。
I love dogs! (Once again, the word for "I" is not in this sentence. But if you said this, people would know you were talking about yourself, unless otherwise noted. Context Context Context!)

ね = Flavoring particle. Isn't it? Huh? Eh?


そうですね。 = That's right huh? It is isn't it?



の = Awesome particle! The example sentence with "no" uses it as possessive connecting two things together. tanaka no inu = tanaka's dog


たなかのいぬがちいさいです。
田中の犬が小さいです。
Tanaka's Dog is small

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• Japan

[ilovebraziljapan]

This is really good! Great job!! You are so professional!

That expression "ね" actually comes from Portuguese! Most people don't know about its origin though. Maybe I should make a video about it :D Thank you!!

[DerReisendeGaijin]

WHAAAAAAAAAAAT? No way. Portuguese really?!?!? Whoaa, that blows my mind.

I mean, I know lots of words come from other languages like "pan" is from portuguese too, I think. Most of the katakana words. But "ne", I thought it was 100% Japanese.

BIKKKKKKKKKKKURI

And thank you for the nice comment. I haven't made any new ones lately, but once school lets out I plan on making at least 1 lesson/day

[colinDESU]

なにぬねの！

Haha good stuff man.

You gonna teach "wi" and "we"? LOL

[DerReisendeGaijin]

hahahaha, that would be a little unnecessary, but I wonder if gaijin started using those in Japan, if the younger Japanese would know what they were.

[halocin]

Oh, Beau. You're so professional.

[DerReisendeGaijin]

ファブリッジオでっす！

[KeiChii07]

I could learn alot here~:3

[ilovebraziljapan]

hehehe xD

たばこ、カステラ and some other words come from Portuguese, too :D

Thank "you"!