Today let’s learn Japanese locations.
In a previous lesson we learnt to say something is between some other things:
Today we are going to use the sentence pattern we learnt in this lesson.
By the end of this lesson you will be able to say:
“The bank is next to the post office”
“The bakery is behind the movie theater”
“The train station is near coffee shop”
“The Japanese person is standing in front of their house”
“The English school is above the subway”
One of the most useful Japanese sentence patterns is:
TOPIC wa LANDMARK no LOCATION ni arimasu / imasu
So, from the previous lesson () we can already say “The bank is between the post office and the school”:
ginko wa yuubinkyoku to gakkou no aida ni arimasu
If you need to brush up, go back to that lesson first.
Now, we can use the same sentence structure, we just need to change the location marker.
Location markers:
aida between
tonari next to
chikaku near
ue above, over
ushiro behind
mae in front
So, to our examples (remember we always use the same sentence structure):
“The bank is next to the post office”
ginko wa yuubinkyoku no tonari ni arimasu
“The bakery is behind the movie theater”
pan ya wa eigakan no ushiro ni arimasu
“The train station is near coffee shop”
eki wa kissaten no chikaku ni arimasu
“The Japanese person is standing in front of their house”
nihon jin wa uchi no mae ni imasu
“The English school is above the subway”
eikaiwa wa chikatestu no ue ni arimasu
Let’s run through the vocab used here:
ginko bank
wa topic particle (as for)
yuubinkyoku post office
no possessive particle ([of] or [‘s])
tonari next to
ni location particle (to)
arimasu to be (non living things)
imasu to be (living things)
pan bread
yes shop
eiga movie
kan house
ushiro behind
eki train station
kissaten coffee shop
chikaku near
nihon Japan
jin person
uchi house
mae in front
eikaiwa English school
chikatetsu subway
ue above
There you have it! Any questions, leave me a post…
Cheers, David