Word of the Week 2

 

                                  Word of the Week!

For WEEK 2, our word of the week is:

かぞく

(家族)

Read as Kazoku means Family. It is consist of two Kanji, 家 and族.

 

家 is the Kanji of Houseいえ (ie)for Kun-Yomi (Japanese reading) and か (ka) for On-Yomi (Chinese reading). When this Kanji is alone, the reading will be in its Kun-Yomi which いえ.

 

族 is read as ぞく(zoku)(Chinese reading) means tribe.

 

 

Example:

わたしは４にんかぞくです。(私は４人家族です。)

(Watashi ha Yonnin Kazoku desu.)

There are four people in my family.

 

わたしのかぞくのいえはあそこにあります。(私の家族の家はあそこにあります。)

 (Watashi no kazoku no ie ha asoko ni arimasu.)

My Family's house is over there.

 

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For the above vocabularies:

わたし (私) – means I. 
は、の、に – are particles (these words will be discussed in future blogs) 
です – is a to be verb (will be discussed in future blogs) 
４にん (４人) – four people 
あそこ – over there

あります – have (for objects) 

 

If you want to learn about Family members, you can check my previous blog Let’s talk about Family in Japanese.  

 

 

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If you want to check my previous post, you can check it through the link below:

>> Word of the week 1
>> Holy week
>> Japanese Pronouns

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>> The Hiragana Character
>> The Katakana Character

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