Vocabulary

• the kanjy of ‘hyaku’ (100) is 百; it looks like a ‘100’ turned on its side.

Sample sentences

Eng: I want to stay here together with you.

lit: together with you here I want to stay.

Comments

The following comments explain some of the grammar in more detail.

Verbs

kaeru (かえる)

‘kaeru’ means ‘to go back’ or ‘to return’. In spite of ending in ‘eru’, ‘kaeru’ is a ‘group 1’ verb. The following are the conjugations that we have seen so far:

to have (‘motte imasu’/imasu)

‘motte imasu’ means ‘to have’ in the sense of ‘to own/possess’ or ‘to hold’ or ‘to carry’. ‘imasu’ means ‘to have’ in the sense of ‘there are’ or ‘to exist’ (great post in yesjapan).

Adverbs

to vs. to issho vs. to issho ni

In lesson 8 we were introduced to ‘to’ as ‘with someone’, and now we are told that ‘to issho (ni)’ is ‘together with someone’. These are exactly the same thing (Japanese from zero), they are two common ways to say the same thing. We use ‘issho’ for non-action verbs and ‘issho ni’ for action verbs.