yasui - inexpensive
Adverbs:
itsumo - always
yukkuri - slowly, leisurely
Interrogatives:
itsu - when
Nouns:
bangohan- supper, dinner
boushi - hat
densha - train
kami - hair (the same as the word for god)
konpyuutaa - computer
koto - thing (abstract)
kumo - cloud
mise - store
mono - thing (concrete)
otoko - man
onna - woman
okaasan - mother
otousan - father
shoujo - young girl
shounen - young boy
tomodachi - friend
tabemono - food
ude - arm
kuchi - mouth
mono - thing
Verbs:
sumu - to reside (don't try using this word yet)
dekiru - to be doable
ko-so-a-do words
In Japanese, things are often quite organized. One example of this is the ko-so-a-do concept. Japanese has a few sets of words with the same or similar endings,
and these four syllables switched in at the beginning. Note this pattern.
kore - this
sore - that
are - that over there
dore - which?
Just as a reminder, remember that for now you should pronounce all the vowels
in Japanese. There is no such thing as a silent 'E' in Japanese. So you would
pronounce 'kore' as KO RAY, but of course with a Japanese R, not an English
one.
Back to the topic, you can see from that set that ko- denotes something within
the grasp of the speaker, so- is for things a small distance from the speaker, a- is
for something far from the speaker, and do- makes interrogative words.
