Japanese Phrases

Well Today I decided to do a quick lesson on some very useful Japanese phrases.

The sentences that we are going to look at are focused on possession, and care worth looking at as they are a little different than in English.

First let's learn how to "My friend"

In Japanese you would say: "Watashi no Tomodachi"

The word 'Watashi' in this instance means "My" and the word "No" indicates possession. Finally the word "Tomodachi" means friend. Easy!!

Well let now check out how to say: "I have coins"

We would say: "Watashi wa koin o moteimasu"

The word :"Watashi" means "I" in this case and the word for coins is "Koin" and finally verb "Moteimasu" is for "have"

OK so the last sentence we will check out today is: "I have a house"

Here we say: "Watashi wa Ie ga arimasu"

This is an interesting translation as you it literally means: "I house there is" and the verb "arimasu" is used for non-living things. If you were to say I have a sister, you would use the verb "imasu". The word for house is "ie"

Well I hope you learned something helpful!!

If you want to learn some more Japanese Phrases I have a free lesson on my website and a 100% free 7 day Japanese audio course for absolute beginners, check them out here: Learn Speak Japanese

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Japanese Time

Hi Guys,

Today I thought about a really cool topic that is great for people that want to learn Japanese, and that telling the time! So let's get into it

The first thing that you need to learn before you can learn the time is Japanese numbers.

1 - Ichi

2 - Ni

3 - San

4 - Shi/Yon

5 - G0

6 - Roku

7 - Nana/ shichi

8 - Hachi

9 - Kyu

10 - Juu

Great! Now let's take a quick look at how to say the minutes in Japanese as these are not exactly like numbers but I am sure you will see the similarities.

1 Ip-pun

2 Ni-fun

3 Sam-pun

4 Yom-pun

5 Go-fun

6 Rop-pun

7 Nana-fun

8 Hap-pun

9 Kyu-fun

10 Jup-pun

"What's the time now?"

Ok so in order to ask: 'What's the time?' you say 'Ima nan ji desu ka'

Make sure that you don't pronounce the 'U' in desu.

When saying the time you simply say the number and then after it say the word for O'clock, which is 'Ji'. So 5 O'clock is 'Go ji'

Now let's have a look at hours and minutes together:

2:46 would be: Ni Ji Yon Juu Roppun desu. So as you can see you use a combination of numbers to form larger numbers, so 40 was 'yon' and 'juu' together and then 46 adding roppun on the end.


Next you need to know how to same A.M. or P.M.

It help you know if it morning or evening, so to do that all you need to do is add 'Gozen' from a.m. and Gogo for p.m. in the front of the sentence. So 7:12 p.m is: Gogo Nana ji Juu nippun

The last thing I want to show you today is how to say half past the hour. The word we use is "han". So to say 5:30, we say Go ji han desu.

That's all for today, so now you can confidentally ask and tell someone the time in Japanese!

If you want my advice on the best ways to learn Japanese and also grab a 100% free 7 day audio course you can do so on my website here: Rocket-Japanese-Review

I also have another lesson here too: Useful Japanese Travel Phrases