【Topic: Family】Let’s learn how to say ‘My mother works at a supermarket.’ in Japanese.

Basic sentence

2022.10.312016.12.01

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目次

Key Sentence
One by one
Vocabulary
Review

Key Sentence

Let’s learn how to talk about where people work in Japanese.

Kana and Kanji: 母はスーパーではたらきます。

Romaji: ha ha wa su u pa a de ha ta ra ki ma su

Meaning: My mother works at a supermarket.

This sentence pattern is used when you don’t know the name of the occupation.

Visit the page below if you know the name of the occupation.

【Basic Sentence: Family】My father is a doctor.

Let's learn how to talk about what people in your family do (occupation) in Japanese.

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One by one

Word	Hiragana	Romaji	Meaning
母	はは	ha ha	my mother
は		wa	no meaning
スーパー		su u pa a	supermarket
で		de	at
はたらきます		ha ta ra ki ma su	work

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Vocabulary

【Japanese Vocabulary: My family】

What you learn: my mother, my father, my older sister, my older brother, my grandmother, my grandfather, my aunt, my uncle / Extension: Use 一番上の for the oldest and 一番下の for the youngest to describe people in your family. Put a counter for people after brothers or sisters if you want to talk about more than one brother or sister.

【Vocabulary: Basic words】Places 1

Let's learn the meaning and pronunciation of くうこう, ぎんこう, がっこう, ゆうびんきょく, スタジアム etc.

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Review

Task 1: Change into Japanese.

My father works at an airport.
My aunt works at a post office.

こたえ

父は空こうではたらきます。
おばはゆうびんきょくではたらきます。

Kanji: 父（ちち）、空こう（くう・こう）

Task 2: Change into English.

兄は駅ではたらいています。
姉は銀行ではたらいています。

Kanji: 兄（あに）、駅（えき）、姉（あね）、銀行（ぎん・こう）

こたえ

My older brother works at a station.
My older sister works at a bank.

Task 3: Listen to answer what you hear in English.

こたえ

My younger sister works at a city hall.
My older brother works at a hospital.