Have you heard of this word "マジック"?マジック has two meanings in Japanese.One is "magic" and the other is "a permanent marker".Most Japanese people use this as a general term for a permanent marker.Actually, this topic is similar to the…

What time? or when ? on twitter.<Is Japanese really difficult? (Part.48)>I came across an interesting Japanese word "何時" on a website.The website explains someone's twitter post.This is the dialogue.A: 沖縄行かない?B: あり。何時？Something felt wrong about the word "何時" becau</is>…

Are you familiar with the Japanese-language expression "よそう（yosou）"? It is a basic Japanese word.(1)予想（よそう）=an expectation/a prediction.(2)ご飯をよそう=To put rice into a bowl.(3)会うのは、よそう=Let's not see somebody (Additio…

I've been swamped with work for two weeks.That made me work late and get home around midnight, so I took a taxi three times in two weeks.I used to catch a taxi easily near my company.There is a place where taxies are available. It's not a …

I read an interesting article/manga on a website yesterday.A husband, who is from France and can speak Japanese, asks his Japanese wife to send him a picture she took yesterday.She said "はっ！ただいま" with a saluting emoji.He was confuse…

First of all, do you know what these words "朝(asa)" ,"昼(hiru)" ,"夕方(yuugata)", "夜，晩(yoru,ban)" and "夜中(yonaka)" mean?(A)朝 means the period of time from 4 a.m to 10 a.m.(B)昼 means the period of time from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.(C)夕方 …

Who got a shot?/注射をうつCovid-19 vaccine are now available by appointment in my area.How about you?We often use this phrase "注射（ちゅうしゃ）をうつ" .It literally means "you give someone an injection", but almost everyone uses it in a …

”となりの駅” means "a next station". I sometime use this phrase, but I think it might be a strange phrase.Here, there are three stations A, B and C.(A⇔B⇔C)If I was at/in/around the A station, となりの駅 means B station.I sometimes use the …

“To wither” has many faces in Japanese. 散る、こぼれる、落ちる、しぼむ、崩れる、舞うThese Japanese words mean “to wither”, it depends on the flower though.There are a lot of expressions :-0Many people who study Japanese have already have k…

つづ, A Tsugaru Dialect word, with many meanings.I haven't heard ofつづand it's Tsugaru Dialect, so I've never said it before.つづ means soil, governor, cheese, a pipe, father and milk/breast.I listened to the pronunciation on a video, but…