Japanese trivia

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• Which word follows the te-form of a verb to make the request 'please do it'?Grammar
• Which ending attaches to a verb to say 'want to do'?Grammar
• Which Japanese particle carries the meaning 'too', as in 'I am going too'?Grammar
• Which ending makes a verb negative in plain speech?Grammar
• Which particle means 'from' in 'from morning until night'?Grammar
• Which particle follows a clock time, as in 'gets up at seven'?Grammar
• Which Japanese word points to something near the speaker?Grammar
• Which verb form is the base for linking actions and for building requests and the progressive?Grammar
• What is the plain past form of たかい (takai)?Grammar
• In バスで行く (basu de iku, to go by bus), で marks the place where the action happens.Grammar
• ましょう (mashou) is used to invite someone to do something together.Grammar
• Which Japanese particle joins two nouns, as in 'bread and milk'?Grammar
• A Japanese noun usually keeps the same form whether it refers to one thing or to many.Grammar
• The negative of たかい (takai) is たかいない.Grammar
• ある (aru) is the verb used to say that a person or an animal is somewhere.Grammar
• ~ている (te iru) is used for an action that is going on right now.Grammar
• Japanese often leaves the subject out of a sentence when it is clear from context.Grammar
• Japanese has articles that correspond to the English a and the.Grammar
• The particle ね (ne) at the end of a sentence asks the listener to agree or confirm.Grammar
• A Japanese verb changes its form according to whether the subject is I, you, or he.Grammar
• In the gojūon chart, which sound does the hiragana か stand for?Script and writing
• An i-adjective such as たかい takes の between it and a noun it comes before.Grammar
• A native Japanese food name such as すし is written in katakana as a rule.Script and writing
• The Japanese word たかい (takai) means cheap.Vocabulary
• Which day of the week is げつようび (getsuyōbi)?Vocabulary
• Which color is あか (aka)?Vocabulary
• What does the Japanese word おいしい (oishii) mean?Vocabulary
• What does the Japanese word ともだち (tomodachi) mean?Vocabulary
• What does the Japanese word いぬ (inu) mean?Vocabulary
• What does the Japanese word ねこ (neko) mean?Vocabulary
• What does the Japanese word みず (mizu) mean?Vocabulary
• What does the Japanese word やま (yama) mean?Vocabulary
• Which word reads the number 1 in Japanese?Vocabulary
• What does the Japanese word ほん (hon) mean?Vocabulary
• In Japanese the number 1 is read いち (ichi).Vocabulary
• The Japanese word あか (aka) means red.Vocabulary
• The Japanese word げつようび (getsuyōbi) means Sunday.Vocabulary
• The Japanese word おいしい (oishii) means that something tastes bad.Vocabulary
• The Japanese word ねこ (neko) means cat.Vocabulary
• The Japanese word いぬ (inu) means cat.Vocabulary
• The Japanese word みず (mizu) means water.Vocabulary
• The Japanese word さかな (sakana) means fish.Vocabulary
• The Japanese word やま (yama) means river.Vocabulary
• Which meaning-bearing script is mixed in with the kana in Japanese?Script and writing
• What is the chart called that arranges the Japanese kana by consonant row and vowel column?Script and writing
• What is the small kana printed beside or above a kanji to show its reading called?Script and writing
• Which of these words is normally written in katakana?Script and writing
• Roughly how many basic hiragana characters are there in modern Japanese?Script and writing
• What is the writing of Japanese in the Latin alphabet called?Script and writing
• Which Japanese script is used mainly for loanwords and foreign place names?Script and writing
• The hiragana あ, the first character of the gojūon chart, is read as which sound?Script and writing
• Which pair correctly names the two kana scripts used in Japanese?Script and writing
• Japanese writes kanji (漢字) mixed in with the kana.Script and writing
• Each kana character is built by combining a separate consonant letter and vowel letter, the way an alphabet spells a syllable.Script and writing
• The hiragana あ is read as the sound a.Script and writing
• The gojūon is a chart that arranges the Japanese kana in rows of consonants and columns of vowels.Script and writing
• Furigana is small kana printed beside or above a kanji to show how it is read.Script and writing
• A Japanese kanji has only one reading, so it sounds the same wherever it appears.Script and writing
• Katakana has twice as many characters as hiragana.Script and writing
• Katakana is used mainly for native Japanese words, while hiragana is used for loanwords.Script and writing