Chapter 2 Vocab

* Capitolized words are spelled with Katakana in Japanese.
* Words are grouped into relative categories

Nouns - meishi
TEREBI - television, TV
eiga - movie

PUURU - swimming pool

inu - dog
tori - bird
neko - cat

yama - mountain
ki - tree

e - picture
tegami - a letter

eigo - English
nihongo - Japanese

isu - chair
tsukue - desk
TEEBURU - table

no naka ni - inside, in
no shita ni - under
no ue ni - above, over, on top of
no soba ni - by, beside
no tonari ni - next to, next door to

Verbs - doushi
* There are a lot of verbs in this chapter because we are going to learn how to conjugate them.
miru - to see, to watch
kaeru - to change (transitive) (RU verb)
kaeru - to go back, to go home (U verb)
hanasu - to talk, to speak
kaku - to write, to draw
oyogu - to swim
tatsu - to stand up
suwaru - to sit down
kau - to buy
shinu - to die
tobu - to jump, to fly
aru - to be, there is/are (for non-living things)
iru - to be, there is/are (for living things)

suru - to do
* "Suru" is a very useful verb in Japanese. You can add it to many kanji words and make them into verbs. Since kanji can't conjugate, the Japanese add their own word "suru" to conjugate for them. Here are a few words that this happens with.
unten - driving
unten suru - to drive
ryouri - cooking, cuisine
ryouri suru - to cook

Adjectives - keiyoushi
ii (yoi) - good (only irregular I adjective)

Postpositions - joshi
to - with
de - in (a language), at (a place; used with action verbs)
ni - at (a place; used with static verbs like "iru" and "aru")