De (By / With / At) Friday, Dec 30 2005
Level 1 4:57 pm
Today I will show you how to use “de” (by / with / at)
Eat with chopstick - O hashi de tabemasu
Cut with scissors - Hasami de kirimasu
Write with pencil - Enpitsu de kakimasu
Speak in English - Eigo de hanashimasu
Go by car - Kuruma de ikimasu
Swim at the sea - Umi de Oyogimasu
Play inside the house - Uchi no naka de asobimasu
Meaning : Hashi (Chopstick / Bridge), Hasami (Scissors), Eigo (English), Umi (Sea), Oyogimasu (Swim), Asobimasu (Play)
Q : You come by what? - Nani de kimasu ka?
A : I come by car - Kuruma de kimasu
For negative use “de wa”. Example : Hasami de wa kirimasen
The combination of “de” and “e”
Go to school by train - Densha de Gakkou e ikimasu
Isn’t going to school by train - Densha de wa gakkou e ikimasen
Stay Tuned ! Level 2 lesson will be on the way.
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July 21st, 2006 at 11:19 am
[…] Other Examples It’s better to eat more vegetables – Yasai o takusan (taberu)tabeta hō ga ii desu It’s better to sleep earlier – (Hayai)Hayaku (neru)neta hō ga ii desu It’s better not to go too far – Amari (tooi)tooku e wa (iku)ikanai hō ga ii desu Meaning : Yasai (Vegetables), Takusan (Many / More), Neru (Sleep), Hayai (Fast), Tooi (Far), Amari (Not So) Apparently, someone’s under the impression that you can learn Japanese in blasts of verses served up every few days. I will give them this: the entries are categorized by levels, meaning that you can get a basic primer by clicking on “Level 1” and reading all the entries. […]
January 14th, 2007 at 12:52 am
Thanks for all your hard work, “Stay Tune” should be Stay Tuned and “Densha de wa gakkou e ikimasen” should be Basu de wa gakkou e ikimasen I think
January 14th, 2007 at 1:37 am
Tune can be a noun -
I like that tune/ I liked that tune
or a verb -
I tune pianos/ I tuned pianos
but in Stay Tuned, Tune is an Adjective to describe someone who is watching.
I Stay tuned/ I Stayed tuned
January 14th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Hi Chris,
Thanks for the the correction. I mistype the train with bus. And also thanks for explaning “Stay Tuned”. Correction is made.