English-Japanese conversation dictionary, preceded by a few elementary notions of Japanese grammar

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by  Rose-Innes, Arthur

^liillSHJAPANESE
CONVERSATION DICTIONARY
A. ROSE-INNES
AMERICAN EDITION

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ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGNS. PRONUNCIATION (approximate)
ace. accusative a a in father
adj. adjective
aff. affirmative ai ai inaisle
aux. auxiliary au ow in cow
comp. compound ch ch in child
cond. conditioned e ein pen
dat. dative
dist. distinct ei ei in rein
expr. expressed g sometimesas in goat;
fig. figuratively sometimes tlie sound of nginking
filointit.lr.. iflinottlerlraoanwlsleiydtive io ioiinnmmaocrheine
n. noun Ou ouin though
opp. opposed « s insat
p. Pfige u u input
tran. transitive
v. i. verb intransitive The other letters asinEnglish
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"principal word in a paragraph indicate the long vowels must bepronounced long5, e,o,u;and
rc'jitition ofthis word: nbovo, a.. . short vowels (i, M)are hardly pronouncedatall. In
A dash has been wod to indicate the omission thevery commoncaseof verbal terminations insuf
tdboefrauwAorddecoirmaslenpteonicnet.shows theway the verbhas theu is practically silent: e. g. desu is pronounced
to bo conjugated. Seep. 12. des8.
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takecharge of a parcel nimotau woazukaru. preceding a double consonantwhich hasa longer
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EN6LISH=JAPANESE
CONVERSATION DICTIONARY
PRECEDED BY A FEW
ELEMENTARY NOTIONS
OF
JAPANESE GRAMMAR
COMPILED BY
ARTHUR ROSE-INNES
AMERICAN EDITION
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INDEX.
PREFACE
The compileris indebted for theideaofthis book
Pages.
to that very practical series of little dictionaries
called Nutfs Conversatioii Dictionaries. Tho ex- Abbreviations I
ecution of tho work would haveprovedan inipossi- PPrreofniuxnecs,iaStuifofnixes, Contractions IlIlI
bility but for the excellent English-Japanese
Dictionary of the Spoken Language by Hobart- GRAMMATICAL INTROliuCTioN. **
Hai'.ipden and Parlett, mIucIi has been consulted Writing 7
continually. Frequent use has also been made of CVoonicjeusgaotfioVnerobfsthe Verb 1L25
Imijrie's Etymology. Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Ifi
CompoundVerbs 16
This book is intended for the use of tourists Observations onsome Verbs 17
and now residents who wish to speak a little Adjective 19
Japaneio. The compilerhas endeavoui-ed to mako Comparison of Adjectives 21
the book as practical and simple as possible, at Pronoun 21
the sacrifice sometimes of other good qualities: he ANrotuicnle 2222
will l^a more pleased to receive the thanks of the Cardinal Numbers 23
beginner than the praise of the learned. Auxiliary Numerals 24
Ordinal Numbers 26
It will bo found that the Japanese in this Dic- Fractional Numbers 27
tionary is, on the whole, the ordinary, every-day, Honorifics, Polite Words 27
homo-like, middle-class, colloquial language that Postposition 29
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avoided. Weights and Measures 31
DICTIONARY 33
List of words with dialogues IV
Common useful phrases V
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GRAMMATICAL INTRODUCTION.
WRITING.
The Japanese characters are of three kinds:
o) The Kan-ji, a collection of several thousand
signs or ideographs ofChineseorigin, in whicheach
signcorrespondsnottoasoundbuttoanidea. Three
or four thousand of these characters are knownto
people of moderate education, andthis niimberis
enough to read the newspapers and write about
everyday matters.
0) TheHira-Gana, acollectionof50cursivesigns
in which each sign corresponds to the sound of •
syllaljlc.
c) The Kaia-Kana, a collection of 50 angular
signs in which each sign corresponds to the sound
of a syllable.
In the following table the first sign is Hira-Oana
and the second Kala-Kana.
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hr
a
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( iw ) ( 11)
The double letters in Japanese are : kk, mm, nn, The numbe^rs 1, 2, 3and 10o#reabowritten thus :
pp, as, tt, ssh (— shsh), tch (= chch), tts (= teU). 1 2 jj; 3 10 js>
Except ?nm andnn, they are generallywritten ia The following characters may often beseen
kana by replacing the first component by tsu (o or
)!>), thusdr:oilpcphaiiiss^wTTiitttteenndroi--ttssuu--cphai ^Yi ^^^^ ^T gkz.ouzdeanr,i,(m(oforrnidnogw)n-traiXns frgoogmo,To(akfytoe)rnoon)
Double m or n would, of course, be written thus: ± nobori, (for up-trains to Tokyo)
mi-n-na i y-)-
The correctwn.y to write long vowels is not easy ^ deguchi, (way out) '^ iriguchi, (wayin)
tnooviecxpelbaiyns;imtphleyyTrmoe^kp^y.eyao,tihnYogwiertviheie-r3,voirbweelwr:itthtuesn:by the ;mif^j As/;imi,,(tcaintcy), (monePjJ"%vmieatchail,)(town) E^oorrp^^ yseenn,.
Tokyo Yokohama Kobe
Without pretending to go into details as to the
Kan-ji, some of the simpler numbers are given* ^ Nihon, ^ banchi, (house- ^ Taisho,
astheycanfrequently be recognised in thepricesof ^ (Japan) ^ nimiber) ]£ (year-name)
thingsor thehoursof trains. ip ncn, (year) ^ getau, tsuki, Q nichi, hi,
(month, moon) (day, sun)
2341 M—H- M12 --j-Y;222100-+inJ-4033000+Hflf 7g0o --+^ft-c-^ U-^«7b H^BSf orjiit,,ok((oh=,omu2(ir-lm)4easn)) X^-^/chmoomn,,na((,m=i1(ny2wua0otrdems)a)n)Ai.^^p'.laid'kom.oa,(,h(bce(uhiMmirnla)gdn))
5«^3^£ 13 --f --Y 5o-it q^n'^-Io, rsimply ^ oTkniair,u,(b(isgu)ffix/]>tochniaimsaeis, (osfmaslhli)ps)^Jc mJijtzui,or(i,wa(tiecre))
l8 ^A ''^1 ''1 -t- 100^ H somWehteinmesthethcehafroarctmeriss atrheewrsiatmteenawsitthheaprbirnutsehd,
9 +ii etc. etc. 60 ^.c 1000 =p jcuhsatraacsteirns,Ensgolmieshtimtheeswarniotttheenrlfetotremrsisareempdilfofyereednt;
10 to the printed ones.
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CONJUGATION.
The following is notan attempt atgivingacom-
pleteorscientificconjugationoft^eJapaneseverb;
thisis longandcomplicated. Wehave onlyendea-
voured to show the easiest way of forming those
partsoftheverbinmost commonuse. Thisbookis
onlyintendedforbegianers; andwebelievethatthe
novicewillderivemorebenefitfromlearningashort
abstractoftheverbsuchasgivenhere,thanbytrying
torememberalltheformsofthefullconjugation.
TABLE I. (Bases)
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