LESSON NOTES

Absolute Beginner S1 #22

Do You Drink Japanese Beer?

CONTENTS
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3
3
4
4
4

Kanji
Kana
Romanization
English
Vocabulary
Sample Sentences
Vocabulary Phrase Usage
Grammar

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KANJI
1.

supermarket)

2.

3.

4.

5.

KANA
1.

supermarket)

2.

3.

4.

5.

ROMANIZATION

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1.

(supermarket)

2.

TEIR:

Masato-san wa, nani o nomimasu ka.

Wain desu ka? Bru desu ka.

3.

MASATO:

Boku wa, bru o nomimasu.

4.

TEIR:

Ja, bru o kaimasu. Kaori-san wa?

Kaori-san mo bru o nomimasu ka?

5.

KAORI:

Ee. chotto.

ENGLISH
1.

(At the supermarket)

2.

TAYLOR:

Masato, what will you have to drink?

Wine? Beer?

3.

MASATO:

I'll have beer.

4.

TAYLOR:

I'll buy some beer then.

What about you, Kaori? Will you drink beer too?

5.

KAORI:

Yes, a little.

VOCABULARY
Kanji

Kana

R omaji

English

nani

what

nomimasu

to drink; masu form

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wain

wine

bru

beer

chotto

a bit, a little

kaimasu

to buy;masu form

SAMPLE SENTENCES

Rass wa nan desu ka.

Nani o nomimasu ka.

What's lassi?

What would you like to drink?

Aka-wain ga arimasu ka?

Nama bru, hitotsu kudasai.

Do you have red wine?

One draft beer, please.

Chotto, sumimasen.

Tamago o nanko kaimasu ka.

Excuse me for a minute.

How many eggs are you going to buy?

VOCABULARY PHRASE USAGE

nomimasu ( )
This is a polite verb that means "to drink." Note that because it is the polite form of the verb, it
ends in -masu.
kaimasu ( )
This is a polite verb that means "to buy"/"to purchase."
nani
In Lesson 11, we learned the word nan (), which means "what," as in Kore wa nan desu
ka? ("What's this?") This word, nani, is another word that means "what" that we use in certain
sentence structures. In this lesson, we will be using nani.

GRAMMAR

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T he Focus of T his Le sson Is Asking Que st ions Using Masu Ka .

Kaori-san mo bru o nomimasu ka?

"Do you drink be e r t oo, Kaori?"

In the last lesson, you learned how to talk about doing an action with an object using the
pattern [pe rson] wa [obje ct ] o [ve rb]. Let's take a look at this again.
For Example :
Subje ct /
Pe rson

wa

Obje ct /
T hing

b ru (
Kaori
()

wa ()

o
()

Ve rb

"English"

nomimasu.
(

"Kaori
drinks
beer."

In this lesson, we'll look at how to ask questions about actions using verbs and the
question marker ka .
Asking Que st ions Using Masu Ka

Making a sentence into a question in Japanese is so easy: all you have to do is add ka on to
the end of a -masu verb sentence.
Sentence Pattern:
Subje ct /
Pe rson

Teir
(

Kaori
()

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wa

wa
()

wa
()

Obje ct /
T hing

niku
()

wain
()

o
()

o
()

Ve rb

tabemas
u
(

)
nomimas
u
(

ka

"English"

ka
()

"Does
Taylor
eat
meat?"

ka
()

"Does
Kaori
drink
wine?"

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Masato
()

O-t san
(

Kare
()

wa
()

wa
()

wa
()

manga
()

terebi
()

konpy t

o
()

yomimas
u
(

ka
()

o
()

mimasu
()

ka
()

o
()

tsukaima
su
(

ka
()

"Does
Masato
read
comics?"
"Does
your
father
watch
TV?"

"Does he
use a
compute
r?"

Asking "What " Que st ions Using Nani o [Ve rb]- Masu Ka ?
In the dialogue you heard Taylor asking Masato nani o nomimasu ka? ()
As you may know already, nani () means "what." Using nani o [verb]-masu ka , you can
ask a question beginning with "what."
Sentence Pattern:
Subje ct /
Pe rson

Teir
(

Kaori
()

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wa

wa
()

wa
()

nani

nani
()

nani
()

o
()

o
()

Ve rb

tabemas
u
(

)
nomimas
u
(

ka

"English"

ka
()

"What
does
Taylor
eat?"

ka
()

"What
does
Kaori
drink?"

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Masato
()

O-t san
(

Kare
()

wa
()

wa
()

wa
()

nani
()

nani
()

nani
()

yomimas
u
(

o
()

o
()

mimasu
()

tsukaimas
u
(

o
()

ka
()

ka
()

ka
()

"What
does
Masato
read?"
"What
does
your
father
watch?"

"What
does he
use?"

Example s f rom T his Dialogue

1.

2.

Masato-san wa, nani o nomimasu ka.

"What do you drink, Masato?"

Kaori-san mo b ru o nomimasu ka?

"Do you drink beer too, Kaori?"

Sample Se nt e nce s

1.

2.

3.

Tomodachi wa o-sake o nomimasu ka.

"Do your friends drink alcohol?"

Sumisu-san wa anime o mimasu ka.

"Does Mr. Smith watch anime?"/"Do you watch anime, Mr. Smith?"
Ob san wa int netto o tsukaimasu ka.

"Does your grandmother use the Internet?"

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Language T ip: Re vie w of t he Part icle Mo ( )

Mo ()
In the dialogue, we saw the line Kaori-san mo b ru o nomimasu ka? where we used mo in
place of wa in our sentence structure. This mo has the meaning of "also" or "too" and
refers to the noun that comes before it.
For Example :
1.

Kaori-san mo b ru o nomimasu ka?

"Do you (Kaori) drink beer t oo?"

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