全然 【ぜん・ぜん】 (adv) – not at all (when used with negative)
難しい 【むずか・しい】 (i-adj) – difficult
三の漢字も全然難しくない!
さんのかんじもぜんぜんむずかしくない!
(The) Kanji for “three” is also not hard at all!
Example 2
In this next example, 「姦しい」 is not very commonly used (better to memorize 「やかましい」 or 「騒がしい」). However, the proverb is interesting in terms of the actual Kanji, I just had to include it here.
女 【おんな】(n) – woman
三人 【さん・にん】(counter) – 3 people
寄る 【よ・る】(u-verb) – to approach; to gather
姦しい 【かしま・しい】(i-adj) – noisy
死ぬ 【し・ぬ】(u-verb) – to die
ことわざ – proverb
勉強 【べん・きょう】(n) – study
する (exception) – to do
A: 女三人寄れば姦しい。
A: おんなさんにんよればかしましい。
A: If 3 women gather, (it) gets noisy.
B: 死にたいのかしら?
B: しにたいのかしら?
B: Do (you) want to die?
A: ことわざを勉強してるだけだよ!
A: ことわざをべんきょうしてるだけだよ!
A: (I’m) just studying proverbs!
Example 3
三角 【さん・かく】(n) – triangle
関係 【かん・けい】(n) – relationship
いい (i-adj) – good
うん – yes (casual)
多分 【た・ぶん】 – probably; maybe
今 【いま】 – now
想像 【そう・ぞう】(n) – imagination
する (exception) – to do
全然 【ぜん・ぜん】(adv) – not at all (when used with negative)
違う 【ちが・う】(u-verb) – to be different
かわいい (i-adj) – cute
女の子 【おんな・の・こ】 – girl
囲む 【かこ・む】(u-verb) – to surround, to enclose
やっぱり – as expected (casual)
夢 【ゆめ】(n) – dream
ある (u-verb) – to exist (inanimate)
A: 三角関係って、なんかいいですよね。
A: さんかくかんけいって、なんかいいですよね。
A: Something about love-triangle, isn’t (it) nice?
B: うん、多分、今想像してるのは、全然違うから。
B: うん、たぶん、いまそうぞうしてるのは、ぜんぜんちがうから。
B: Yeah, (what you’re) probably imagining right now is totally wrong so…
A: かわいい女の子二人に囲まれてですね。
A: かわいいおんなのこふたりにかこまれてですね。
A: (You’re) surrounded by two cute girls and then, right?
A: やっぱり。まっ、夢があっていいんじゃない?
A: やっぱり。まっ、ゆめがあっていいんじゃない?
B: I knew it. Well, (I guess it’s) good to have dreams.
If it bothers you that “like” is an adjective and not a verb in Japanese, you can think of 「好き」 as meaning “desirable”. Also, you can see a good example of the topic and identifier particle working in harmony. The sentence is about the topic “Bob” and “fish” identifies specifically what Bob likes.
Have you perhaps written adjective and verb in the wrong place since desirable is an adjective?
Thanks these are always really helpful, it says on Twitter that the 漢字 of the day is 三 but you always cover more and learn words (for me 今 & 死ね) that you have seen, but not really touched on yet. It also helpful to have them put into sentences as I find it easier to remember words if there used in a good example.
https://guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/adjectives
If it bothers you that “like” is an adjective and not a verb in Japanese, you can think of 「好き」 as meaning “desirable”. Also, you can see a good example of the topic and identifier particle working in harmony. The sentence is about the topic “Bob” and “fish” identifies specifically what Bob likes.
Have you perhaps written adjective and verb in the wrong place since desirable is an adjective?
Thanks these are always really helpful, it says on Twitter that the 漢字 of the day is 三 but you always cover more and learn words (for me 今 & 死ね) that you have seen, but not really touched on yet. It also helpful to have them put into sentences as I find it easier to remember words if there used in a good example.
Thanks, that’s the goal!