My words

今年

ことし こんねん

this year

去年

きょねん こぞ

last year

家

か いえ うち ち け んち

s house s home

思う

おもう

to think to consider to believe to think (of doing) to plan (to do) to judge to assess to regard to imagine to suppose to dream to expect to look forward to to feel to desire to want to recall to remember

自己紹介

じこしょうかい

selfintroduction

名前

なまえ

name full name given name first name

意味

いみ

meaning significance

本屋

ほんおく ほんや ほんじや

bookstore bookshop publisher main building

近く

ちかく

near neighbourhood neighborhood vicinity nearly (ie it took nearly one year) close to shortly soon

住む

すむ

to live (of humans) to reside to inhabit to dwell to abide

働く

はたらく

to function to operate to be effective to work (ie works) to come into play to commit (eg a crime) to perpetrate to do to act to practise to practice to be conjugated to labor to labour to work

番目

ばんめ

indicates position in a sequence divisions of a kabuki performance

兄

あに このかみ にい けい

elder brother pronoun or suffix used in reference to an older brother figure Mister Mr

お兄さん

おにいさん

older brother elder brother (vocative) young man buddy fella laddie

姉

し あね ねえ

used after the name of someone who is an older sister figure used with various honorifics to mean (older) sister

お姉さん

おねえさん

elder sister (vocative) young lady miss (referring to a waitress etc) maam (used by geisha to refer to their superiors) older girl (no relation)

弟

おとうと おと おとと てい

younger brother little brother kid brother pupil apprentice

妹

いも いもうと

younger sister

家族

かぞく

family members of a family family

長い

ながい

long (distance) long (time) lengthy

短い

みじかい

short

低い

ひくい

low (rank degree value content quality etc) low (position) close to the ground short (height) deep (voice) in a low key low (volume)

上手

じょうず

upper stream upper course of a river right side of the stage (audiences or cameras POV) stage left (actors POV) skillful (only in comparisons) dexterity (only in comparisons) overarm grip on opponents belt upper part

歌

うた

song classical Japanese poetry (esp tanka) modern poetry

歌う

うたう

to sing to sing (ones praises in a poem etc) to compose a poem to recite a poem

客

きゃく かく

guest visitor customer client shopper spectator audience tourist sightseer passenger

注文

ちゅうぶん ちゅうもん

order request

洋食

ようしょく

Westernstyle meal

和食

わしょく

Japanese food Japanesestyle meal Japanese cuisine

牛肉

ぎゅうにく

beef