Wednesday, December 12, 2012

yarichin (ヤリチン): playboy

"Man who has sex with many women". Used by Ayumi to describe Masa (Mark).

nekojita (ねこじた): cat's tongue

neko + shita (tongue). This is said of someone who doesn't like to eat food while it is too hot

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

oaji no ho wa do desu ka (おあじのほはどですか): how does it taste?

I was asked this at U-zen regarding my bento box. The use of "no ho" is confusing to me here.

Very polite, asked by persons preparing the meal

Sunday, November 11, 2012

mimi + ate (みみあて): ear warmers

Another good example of a hard word that makes a lot of sense when broken down into kanji

verb stem + mono

Sensei thought us that the objects of a verb can be called by the verb stem + mono. For example, kaimasu (shopping/buy) makes kaimono, tabemasu makes tabemono, etc. At the same time, you can figure out that wearing a kimono is kimasu.