3.3: Dialogue 3

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Michael checks the apartment further.

Michael: Sugoku kirei na apaato desu nee. It’s a really beautiful apartment, isn’t it!

すごくきれいなアパートですねえ。

Honda: De mo chotto tooku nai desu ka. But isn’t it a little far?

でも、ちょっと遠とおくないですか。

Michael: Sou desu ne. Amari benri ja nai desu nee. You are right. It’s not very convenient, is it.

そうですね。あまり便利べんりじゃないですね。

Honda: Zannen desu nee. Too bad, huh!

残念ざんねんですねえ。

Vocabulary

sugoi すごい凄い amazing, great

sugoku すごく凄く really, amazingly

kirei きれい（な） pretty, clean

de mo でも but

tooi とおい遠い far

benri べんり（な）便利 convenient

zannen ざんねん（な）残念 too bad, regrettable

＋kitanai きたない dirty

＋chikai ちかい近い close, near

＋fuben ふべん（な）不便 inconvenient

＋dame だめ（な） bad, unacceptable

＋yuumei ゆうめい（な）有名 famous

Grammar Notes

Na-Nouns

When one noun describes another, there are two possible patterns. You’ve seen one of these already with the particle no: watashi no keitai ‘my cell phone,’ nihongo no sensei ‘the Japanese teacher.’

A smaller set of nouns hooks up to nouns with the particle na: kirei na nihongo ‘beautiful Japanese,’ benri na keitai ‘convenient cell phone.’ These will be called “na nouns.” All na nouns are intangible, but not all intangibles are na nouns. All na nouns will be followed by (na) in the glossary to distinguish them from regular nouns.

Note that the pronoun no can replace the main noun in this combination.

kirei na apaato a clean apartment -> kirei na no a clean one

amerika no yuumei na kaisha a famous company in America -> amerika no yuumei na no a famous one in America

Adjective ~Ku Forms as Adverbs

The –ku form of adjectives are also used as adverbs.

Yoku wakarimasu. I understand it well.

Sugoku kirei desu. It’s really beautiful.

Yasuku kaimashita. I bought it cheaply.

Ookiku kakimasu. I’ll write it big.

Atarashiku tsukurimasu. I’ll remake it.