Comments on: ~mashou – Let’s

By: rismondo

rismondo — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:32:33 +0000

hanaji :bleeding nose ,answer to Dale

By: Azkanan

Azkanan — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:03:58 +0000

Masu seems to be singular, whilst Mashou means multiple. Using Tony’s example, that would be “nomi~masu”, as you can see, Do “you” want to drink coffee is the context, meaning one person.

“Nomi~mashou” is used in context with “let’s” have a drink, which means, “You and me (+ others, maybe)”, meaning multiple people.

Hope this helps. :D…

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:33:51 +0000

Hi Aadi,
Yes, you can interpret it as “Shall I”. The reason I put “Let’s do something” is that many Japanese use single word when they are expressing “let’s do something”

Example :
Q : Kohii o nomimasu ka? – Do you want to drink coffee?
A : Hai, nomimashou. – Yeah, let’s have a drink

In this case, I’m not sure whether “shall” can be used or not.

By: Aadi

Aadi — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:54:49 +0000

According to your grammar explanation, “~mashou” means “Let’s do something”. Is it also used as “Shall I”?

Example
Ko-hi- wo iremashou ka.
Shall I make you coffee?

Pls explain?

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 01:00:34 +0000

LOL…. The correct Romaji spelling is “Hanagi” which means “piece of jewelry worn through a hole in the nose”.

So next time, you must watch your words when there is Japanese in front of you :d

By: Dale Allen

Dale Allen — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:27:55 +0000

When I attended university, I had a TOEFL student from Japan as my roommate. Some evenings I would stay up late and spout of nonsensical words that I thought sounded like Japanese. One night I actually hit on one! When I said “hana-gee” (correct spelling unknown), he died laughing. After he was able to breath again, he told me that I had said, “Bloody nose booger.” Can’t wait to be able to use that in context someday.