I had the impression that it means "very" (from arigatou gozaimasu) but the podcast I'm listening to opens with Japanese Podu ichi-maru-ichi de gozaimasu (JapanesePod101). In this context, what does gozaimasu mean? And what are the different uses of the word?
who will talk to you only in fragments of words, but nevertheless in such a way that you can perfectly well understand. A fox cannot pronounce a whole word, but a part only—as "Nish . . . Sa. . ." for "Nishida-San"; "degoz . . ." for "degozarimasu, or "uch . . . de...
You can see here that “wa” does not mean “is”. It simply tells us what we are going to be talking about for the rest of the sentence. Remember this well, because it is always true. So, in our “desu” sentence, what follows “wa” is: getsuyōbi desu Getsuyōbi = Monday Des...
Again, we have a point in time, namely, "Monday," so Risa used goro. Risa: 1日ぐらいかかります。 (Ichi-nichi gurai kakarimasu.) Micheal: "[It] will take one day." Here, we are talking about duration, so the correct word to use is gurai....
So this could mean "I drink Coke" or "I will drink Coke", right? Naomi: Right! Kat: So let me ask you, Naomi-sensei... how do you know that someone's talking about the future, and not the present in Japanese? Naomi: Well, you mostly have to figure it out by context. In ...
Literally it's “Kobayashi’s room in” but when we translate to English, in Ms. Kobayashi’s room. Then we have Sakura: 何 (nani) Peter: What. Sakura: が (ga) Peter: Subject marker. Sakura: あります (arimasu) Peter: There is Sakura: か (ka) Peter: Question marking particle. ...
(Arimasu ne.) Right. You can also say あのバスです。(Ano basu desu.) Jessi: “That bus over there does”. The rule for this is explained in the lesson notes so please be sure to check them out. Jessi: And Naomi-sensei, I have one more question. Naomi: 何でし...