#8 What does 人 means? ~ Japanese Kanji~

2018. 12. 21

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Today's kanji is 人!

Reads: hito
Means: a person
How to write 人👇
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Example sentence:

1. They're few people here at night.
...夜 ここ には ほとんど 人 が いない
/yoru koko niwa hotondo hito ga inai/

👉夜(よる, yoru)

This means "night", and also means "at night"

👉ここ(koko)

This means "here"

But in Japanese, you have to add the word, に.

Because ここ is just a noun. So you make it to be an adverb like "here"

For example,

"I want to go there"

This means そこに行きたい.

そこ(soko) is a noun, which means "there", so you have to put the word "に", and it's changed to an adverb.

👉ほとんど(hotondo)

If you find this word, you must find "ない" like
"ほとんど〜ない"

And this means "they're few...."

So ほとんど 人が いない, this means "there're few people"

That's easy.

👉人(hito)

This is translated as "people".

Japanese nouns don't have to change to a plural form.

When you emphasize that "there're some people, not one", you say 人たち(hito tachi)

👉いない(inai)

This is a negative form of いる(iru), which means to exist.

If you put ない after verbs, you can make a negative form.

For example:

たべる(taberu)...to eat
たべない(tabe NAI)... not to eat

見る(mi-ru)...to see
見ない(mi-NAI)...not to see

切る(ki-ru)...to cut
切らない(ki-ra NAI)...not to cut

話す(hana-su)...to talk
話さない(hana-sa NAI)...not to talk

読む(yo-mu)...to read
読まない(yo-ma NAI)...not to read

する(suru)...to do
しない(shi NAI)...not to do

書く(ka-ku)...to write
書かない(ka-ka NAI)...not to write

作る(tsuku-ru)...to make
作らない(tsuku-ra NAI)...not to make

聞く(ki-ku)...to hear
聞かない(ki-ka NAI)...not to hear

So 夜ここにはほとんど人がいない, this means
"There're few people here at night"

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