kanji for "Genki desu, okage sama de"

digyourownhole · (#1 (**permalink**))

Hi I am learning Japanese. Everything I learn I write down fonetically (i.e. as it sounds to me), in 'correct' Japanese, in Dutch (my own language) and in kanji.

I am having trouble finding a correct kanji translation on the internet for "okage sama de" as part of the sentence "Genki desu, okage sama de"

i got this far:
元気です, ______

anybody that can fill in the blank?

Kind regards.

Daniel

Harold · (#2 (**permalink**))

You can just write it all in hiragana.

If you absolutely want the kanji, it's one of the following:

お陰さまで (おかげさまで) (exp) (I'm fine) thank you;
お陰様で (おかげさまで) (exp) (I'm fine) thank you;

Nagoyankee · (#3 (**permalink**))

That would be:

お陰様で

digyourownhole · (#4 (**permalink**))

thanks for the replies. I went to quickly in asuming i am writing kanji. I am using about.com for the symbols. Can't find what they use. Can anybody tell me what i am using by reading the translations below? (is it kanji, hiragana, ..)

ohayou gozaimasu おはようございます
ikaga desu ka いかがですか
Konichiwa こんにちは
Sayonara さよなら

kind regards, and again, thanks for the quick replies

Nagoyankee · (#5 (**permalink**))

Those four phrases are in hiragana, and 99% of the times they are written only in hiragana.

digyourownhole · (#6 (**permalink**))

thanks. i know where i got confused. I looked up hiragana on wikipedia.org. There it said that it is hiragana and katakana are both kana systems. Later i saw kanji on a google search result. Which made me think i missspelled kana.

So, hiragana it is.
I now see on wikipedia that katakana, hiragana, kanji and some others are all part of the japanese language. I will have to read up on that some more soon.

digyourownhole · (#7 (**permalink**))

ohyeah, what is "okage sama de" in hiragana?

Nagoyankee · (#8 (**permalink**))

That would be:

おかげさまで

digyourownhole · (#9 (**permalink**))

damn, sorry people, i need to be more clear the first time.

what are, and thanks for this, the individual words okage, sama, de in: おかげさまで

much appriciated. And i will make sure i am more clear the first time, else this is going to be a long thread.

Endar23 · (#10 (**permalink**))

Quote:

Originally Posted by digyourownhole

Hi I am learning Japanese. Everything I learn I write down fonetically (i.e. as it sounds to me), in 'correct' Japanese, in Dutch (my own language) and in kanji.

I am having trouble finding a correct kanji translation on the internet for "okage sama de" as part of the sentence "Genki desu, okage sama de"

i got this far:
元気です, ______

anybody that can fill in the blank?

Kind regards.

Daniel

元気です, おかげ様で
there you go