Family: My older sister has a long hair.

Basic sentence
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On this page, you can learn how to describe the appearance of somebody in your family in Japanese.

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Key Sentence

First box: English, Second box: Romaji, Last box: Japanese writing and audio

My older sister has a long hair.
a ne wa ka mi ga na ga i de su
かみ長いです。
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One by one

  • 姉(あね) → my older sister
  • は → no meaning
  • かみ → hair
  • が → no meaning
  • 長いです(なが・いです) → long
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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: Body parts
On this page, you can learn Japanese vocabulary for body parts.

↓ Adjectives to describe body parts ↓

【Japanese Vocabulary: adjectives】to describe appearance
scary(こわい)cute(かわいい)cool(かっこいい)tall(せがたかい)short(せがひくい)beautiful(うつくしい)young(わかい)handsome(ハンサムな)ugly(ぶさいくな)

↓ Adjectives to describe appearance ↓

【Japanese Vocabulary: adjectives】to describe appearance
scary(こわい)cute(かわいい)cool(かっこいい)tall(せがたかい)short(せがひくい)beautiful(うつくしい)young(わかい)handsome(ハンサムな)ugly(ぶさいくな)
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Review

Task 1: Change into Japanese.

  • I have big hands.
  • My older sister has cute eyes.

Task 2: Change into English.

  • 祖母は耳が小さいです。
  • 父はかみがみじかいです。

Kanji

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

Answer

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