japanese
part of speech
adjective (Japanese — with a capital J); noun (a Japanese person, the Japanese; Japanese — the language)
meaning for a pupil
1) Japanese means from or about Japan, an island country in East Asia. tree →
2) The Japanese are the people of Japan. tree →
3) Japanese is the language of Japan, written with kanji, hiragana and katakana characters. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life Japanese things such as sushi, origami, manga and anime are popular with children around the world. In geography lessons Japan is a chain of islands with many earthquakes and volcanoes, like Mount Fuji. In PE, judo and karate come from Japan. Phrases: «Japanese food», «speak Japanese», «Japanese culture», «Japanese garden».
examples
- Sushi is a Japanese food. tree →
- We learned some Japanese words in class. tree →
- Origami is the Japanese art of paper folding. tree →
- My pen pal is Japanese. tree →
- Japanese uses three kinds of writing. tree →
- Judo is a Japanese sport. tree →
- We visited a peaceful Japanese garden. tree →
- «Arigato» means thank you in Japanese. tree →
- The great Japanese general Momotaro has come to fight you and to take your stronghold from you. tree →
note
Capital J always. Plural noun: «the Japanese» (no -s); for one person say «a Japanese person». Do not use «Jap» — it is a rude slur. Stress at the end: ja-pa-NEESE.
In the corpora
- Van Gogh painted his own versions of prints by the Japanese artist Hiroshige to learn from them, and that influence changed his style.
- Japanese probes brought back dust from the asteroids Itokawa and Ryugu, and NASA's OSIRIS-REx returned samples from Bennu in 2023.
- In 2017 a Japanese train company said sorry in public because a train left 20 seconds early.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «japanese» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.