1.4: Dialogue 4

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In a gift shop

Emily: Omiyage o kaimashita. I bought souvenirs.

お土産みやげを買かいました。

Yamada: Waa, kawaii desu nee. Wow, cute!

わあ、かわいいですねえ。

Emily: Deshou? Aren’t they?

でしょう？

Yamada: Akai no wa kore dake desu ka. Is this all of the red ones?

赤あかいのは、これだけですか。

Emily: Ie, mou ik-ko arimasu yo. Hora. No, there’s one more! Look.

いえ、もう一個いっこありますよ。ほら。

Vocabulary

omiyage おみやげお土産 souvenir
kawaii かわいい cute
deshou でしょう？ Don’t you think?
akai あかい赤い red
akai no あかいの赤いの red one(s)
dake だけ only, just
~ko 〜こ個 classifier for small objects or pieces
ik-ko いっこ一個 one piece, one item
mou ik-ko もういっこもう一個 one more
＋kakko ii かっこいい good-looking, stylish, cool
＋aoi あおい青い blue
＋kiiroi きいろい黄色い yellow
＋shiroi しろい白い white
＋kuroi くろい黒い black
＋iro いろ色 color
＋nani iro なにいろ何色 what color?

Grammar Notes

More classifiers : 〜個こ，〜枚まい，〜冊さつ

The classifier –ko is used for counting pieces or other units that are relatively small—everything from pieces of cake to apples to packets of sugar. The classifier –ko overlaps in many respects with –tsu. One difference is that –tsu can be used for abstract things like ideas, meetings, or items in a list, while –ko is used only for concrete items. Observe the following examples:

りんご二個にこ ringo ni-ko or りんご二ふたつ ringo futa-tsu two apples

お砂糖一個さとういちこ osatou ik-ko or お砂糖さとう一ひとつ osatou hito-tsu one packet/cube of sugar

会議かいぎが二ふたつありました。Kaigi ga futa-tsu arimasita. There were two meeting.

The classifier for thin, flat objects is 〜枚まい –mai and the classifier for bound volumes is - 〜冊さつ –satsu. Note the sound changes with one, eight, and the question word.

Nouns and Adjectives

Some of the colors have both an adjective and a noun form, as shown in the list
above. Thus it is possible to say both aka desu and akai desu to mean ‘It’s red.’ Equally
the negative forms are aka ja nai desu and akaku nai desu. Which one to use largely
depends on the convention, while you can probably assume the noun versions indicate
classification rather than appearance or characteristics (aka for red wines and the red
light, for example.) All the color words borrowed from other languages are nouns, and
modify nouns with no:
ブルーのバッグ buruu no baggu blue bag
オレンジの紙 orenji no kami orange paper