vocab-sentence game

[82riceballs]

'To' means 'with' in the sense of 'I played a game with my sister' (妹とゲームをした。) or 'I ate lunch with my friends'　(友達と昼ご飯を食べた). That's why in my previous post, I explained it as 'and'. 'To' does not mean 'by means of.'

'De' can mean 'at [someplace]' but it can also mean 'by means of' as you already know for transportation (see Denshi Jisho - Online Japanese dictionary.

'De' can be used in multiple other situations.
e.g. 鉛筆で書いてください Please write in pen
バスで行く to go by bus
寝不足で病気になる to get sick because/due to of lack of sleep

...not to mention a billion different usages I have yet to learn

ところで、日本語はどこで学びますか。By the way, where to you learn Japanese?

[anrakushi]

Originally Posted by 82riceballs

situations.
e.g. 鉛筆で書いてください Please write in pen

just to be a little anal, haha, 鉛筆 is pencil, ペン is pen.

[james1254]

Thanks riceballs that really helped me because i got it confused before :P
I learn Japaneses at school.

[82riceballs]

Originally Posted by anrakushi

just to be a little anal, haha, 鉛筆 is pencil, ペン is pen.

OOPS! my bad... originally I typed ペン, and then I decided to change it to 鉛筆 without changing the english part