Components

Example details

 
わたし
つま
そと
しょくじ
食事
する
きな
ので
りょうり
料理
する
ひつよう
必要
ない
My wife likes to eat out, so she doesn't have to cook.
Grammar and points of interest
Conjugations and inflections
Words
0
1. I; me
2. private affairs; personal matter; secrecy  (this meaning is restricted to reading わたくし)
(click the word to view an additional 1 reading, 1 meaning and 2 forms, examples and links)
2
Most common form:
noun
1. wife  (this meaning is restricted to form 妻)
2. my dear; dear; honey  (archaic; this meaning is restricted to form 妻, 夫)
(click the word to view an additional 2 meanings and 3 forms, examples and links)
1
noun
1. outside; exterior
2. open air
(click the word to view an additional 1 reading and 1 meaning, examples and links)
0
noun
1. meal
2. to eat
(click the word for examples and links)
2
liking; fondness; love  (opposite: 嫌い)
(click the word for examples and links)
0
particle
that being the case; because of ...; the reason is ....; given that...
(click the word for examples and links)
1
1. cooking; cookery; cuisine
2. dealing with something; handling; administration; management  (nuance of doing it easily)
(click the word for examples and links)
0
1. necessary; needed; essential; indispensable  (必用 can imply has to be used rather than is just needed)
noun
2. necessity; need; requirement
(click the word to view an additional 2 forms, examples and links)
1
1. nonexistent; not being (there)  (see also: 亡い; often written with kana only)
2. unpossessed; unowned; not had
(click the word to view an additional 4 meanings and 1 form, examples and links)
Kanji
シ   わたくし    わたし I, myself   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ム   private
grain
サイ   つま wife   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ジョ   ニョ   ニョウ   woman; female   おんな woman   め woman   
イチ   イツ   ひと    ひと- one   
slashed yo
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
yo; yell
stick   
ガイ   ゲ   そと outside   ほか other   はず to remove, mislead   はずれる to come off, to miss   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
セキ   ゆう night   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
katakana 'ta'
divining rod
ショク   ジキ    food   たべる to eat   く to eat   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
リョウ   よ good   
ジン   ニン   ひと man   
ジ   ズ   こと thing; matter   
コウ   この    す to like   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
シ   ス   こ child   
リョウ    fee   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ベイ   マイ   こめ rice   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
eight
モク   ボク   き    こ- tree   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ダイ   タイ   おおきい big   おおいに very much   おお-    
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
ト    Big Dipper   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ジュウ   ジッ   と    とお ten   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
dot   
リ    logic   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
リ   さと village   
オウ    king   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
ヒツ   かなら certainly, invariably   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
katakana 'no'; whereupon; splitting away from
シン   こころ heart   
ヨウ   い to need   かなめ pivotal point   
Please LOG IN to view this kanji's mnemonic
west
Flashcards
Please LOG IN for free flashcards
More info on this sentence: Google Japan ⇗ Sentence translate
Problem with this example? Question or comment? Please CONTACT US.
Kanshudo is your AI Japanese tutor, and your constant companion on the road to mastery of the Japanese language. To get started learning Japanese, just follow the study recommendations on your Dashboard. You can use Quick search (accessible using the icon at the top of every page) to look up any Japanese word, kanji or grammar point, as well as to find anything on Kanshudo quickly. For an overview, take the tour.
Search results include information from a variety of sources, including Kanshudo (kanji mnemonics, kanji readings, kanji components, vocab and name frequency data, grammar points, examples), JMdict (vocabulary), Tatoeba (examples), Enamdict (names), KanjiVG (kanji animations and stroke order), and Joy o' Kanji (kanji and radical synopses). Translations provided by Google's Neural Machine Translation engine. For more information see credits.
×