た comes from the 漢字 かんじ kanji 太.
Words to practice for today:
| たき（滝） waterfall | たか（鷹） hawk |
| うた（歌） song | だい（大） large |
| だす（出す） put out | たこ octopus; （凧）kite |
| だ to be | ただ free; only |
| ださい unfashionable | たかい（高い） tall, high |
Hiragana for Lesson 22
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た is
pronounced /tah/. It
is the １番目 いちばんめ ichi-banme kana in the
た行 ta-gyou, the
４番目 よんばんめ yon-banme row in the hiragana. た comes from the 漢字 かんじ kanji 太. Words to practice for today:
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The verb sing is 歌う, so it follows the ーう verb patterns. Drop the ーう on a ーう verb and add a たい, and you get "want to." 歌いたい is "want to sing." How do you say, "want to meet" and "want to buy"?
大 is a prefix, sometimes pronounced だい and sometimes おお.
出す means take out, put out, emit. Its intransitive partner, 出る（でる） means go out, leave.
たこ can mean octopus, kite, corn (as in a corn on your foot) and even idiot in some dialects.
だ is the copula to be, which means that it makes one thing equal to another:
| これはたかだ。 | kore-wa taka da. | This is a hawk. | |
| それは杉井駅だ。 | すぎいえき | sore-wa sugii-eki da. | That is Sugii station. |
| あれは崖だ。 | がけ | are-wa gake da. | That (over there) is a cliff. |
ただ means free as in for no money.
Notice that ださい and 高い both end in い. Adjectives ending in い don't need だ.
Remember to keep the 書き順 and 方向!
書き順と方向をしっかりと守ってください。
Copyright 12/02/98 Benjamin Barrett
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