Learning Japanese - Day 18 & 19

This weekend I haven't had much chance to review any Japanese, but tonight I did have a bit of time to look at the sheets I was given last week. I've been writing the sentences into pages and writing the meaning of all the different parts of the sentence and what it means. I did this by using an online japanese dictionary called http://jisho.org/

I bought a folder earlier to collect all my Japanese learning material and store it in one pace so I can look back on it and not loose anything.

Here's what I have written so far.

Japanese

• これは何の本ですか

• これ - This (indicating an item near the speaker)

• は - Topic marker

• 何の - What kind / What sort

• 本 - Book

• ですか - Indicates a question

• What kind of book is this?

• 日本語の本です

• 日本語 - Japanese Language

• の - Belonging to (Indicated possession)

• 本 - Book

• です - is

• It is a Japanese language book.

• つくえの上に

• つくえ - Desk

• の - Possession

• 上に - On top of

• On top of the desk

• お金があります

• お金 - Money

• が - Indicates sentence subject

• あります - (masu = polite form) - ある (general form) to have

• have money

• 山田さんのお金ですか

• 山田 - Name

• さん - Mr / Mrs

• の - Belonging to

• お金 - Money

• ですか - It is

• The money belongs to Mr/Mrs Yamada.

• 学校の門はしまっていました。

• 学校　ー　がっこう　ー School

• の - Belonging to

• 門 - Gate

• は - topic particle

• しまっていました。- Closed- (ました - past / polite form)

• The school gate was closed.

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