On this page, you can learn Japanese words you can use in a daily conversation with the song ありがとう (Thank you) by 高橋優 (Yu Takahashi).
Official Music Video
The learning focus on this page is the expressions below.
- ありがとう
- この世界に君という人が生まれてきてくれたことを
You can find them in the video. Go to 1:13.
せんせい
Let’s have a look at the expressions more carefully. Scroll down please.
ありがとう
If you want to say ‘thank you very much’, add ございます at the end of ありがとう.
Thank you very much.
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ありがとうございます。
この世界に君という人が生まれてきてくれたことを
- この means ‘this’.
- 世界（せ・かい／se ka i）means ‘world’.
- 君（きみ／ki mi）means ‘you’.
- 人（ひと）means ‘person’.
- 君という人 means ‘person called you’
- が is a topic marking particle and does not mean anything.
- 生まれて（う・まれて／u ma re te）means ‘born’.
- きて (ki te) is てform of ‘come’ which original form is くる.
- 生まれてきて means ‘born to come’.
- くれた is put after てform when you want to be more thankful.
- こと at the end of the sentence is the same as こと used for Noun Infinitive.