Favorite Japanese Word
 

Ok, here's my question:
Wha is your favorite and/or most useful word in Japanese?

I like the words that they made up to represent sounds, like "peko peko", "sososo", etc. XD XD XD Those are some of the greatest things I've ever heard XD XD XD

Honto(really) is one of my favorite Japanese words.

"Wasurenai de"! I don't know why but I love saying it, and also "inu"! ^.^

Here is a whole spreadsheet of them if your interested:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?k...znoxsQqA&hl=en

Or hontou if you want the full spelling :cool:
(Although people do say honto, just wanted to point it out while I'm here :))

For me, recently I have been quite interested in 四字熟語(yojijukugo)
Because they make great kanji practice and are just generally useful.
My favourites I can think of now are:
十人十色(jyuunintoiro)
一石二鳥(issekinishou)
一生懸命(isshoukenmei)
:cool:

Thank you for pointing that out. :p

Right off the top of my head, I'd probably agree with Lizzey.

ichigo ^.^

I thought of another:
昼夜逆転 ( chuuyagyakuten ) - One's days and nights being reversed

Ah I like too many words :rolleyes:

LMFAO!! That's my favorite word to use too!!

"Aku" for evil. ;)

Tenchu LOL

Toille and Opai

Since my nihongo is so seriously lacking its probably not coincidental that my favorite is すみません (sumimasen). Sure glad it is so easy to say.

I would be in serious trouble if なじぬまして (hajimemashite) was used more often. It is the one word that gets me seriously tongue-tied.

You mean はじめまして。

Here's an old song for you. "わかりません"　by Ann Lewis.

YouTube - アン・ルイス　わかりません

七時。
（しちじ)

i love saying it. they way you make subtle changes to your tounge to change the sounds one after another.

Probably most useful, if you're beginning Japanese.

Kagura!! I've been in love with it since Fruits Basket although I don't know what it means and if you say it with the right Hiragana pronunctiation it almost sounds like Kakurot!! XD

I am reading the words, but I have no idea what you are saying.

Oh yes, I see the typo now! I fighting my keyboard that kept self-shifting between fonts inexplicably. See - that word and I really don't get along. :P

Useful no such thing for me since I'm not fluent and wouldn't try to seem until further notice; but favorite： せんりつ
if I married a Japanese woman and had a child I would name them that, I don't care what anyone says. well maybe I'd cut the kid some slack if it was a boy.

Hmmm . . .I get that alot . . .Maybe I have Schyzotypal, I fit into other synptoms too . . .

洋服だんす is probably my favourite. According to my dictionary it means 'wardrobe'. I just like the image it gives me of all my clothes having a disco in the closet.

サボテン is probably another. One of my housemates had a video game where one of the characters repeatedly screamed something like 'はどうけん’, only I kept hearing at as サボテン and wondering what the big deal was about cacti.

As well as what yuriyuri said, 本当(hontou) does not mean really. It means truth. 本当に(hountou ni) means truly (which pretty much also means really).

Anyway, I'm not sure about my favorite word. I don't know what my favorite word in English is but I have only the selection of the coming on 1,000 or so words I know in Japanese making it easier than the tens of thousands I probably know in English (so many more Japanese words to learn :S).

Here's a few of the many words which I like for some reason or other.

日本(nihon) - This means Japan. Because I love Japan.
空気(kuuki) - This means Air. I remembered this easy because it sounds similar the English word cookie.
歩く(aruku) - This is a verb meaning 'to walk'. It allowed the Totoro opening to be one of the first Japanese songs I understood some of.

"Wakarimasu" would be my favorite word.

My Japanese vocabulary is less then 100 words. I am self-taught. On my recent trip to Tokyo I asked many people for help in my 'broken Japanese'. And the answers I recieved were given in english, broken english, or Japanese. What I loved was the look of delight when I would say, 'wakarimasu' and then repeat the key words that I understood

It's a good word.



(I also have a favorite phrase. "Koko wa doko.")

Mine has to be 'koneko' ^^

音楽 (おんがく) Music and ストレイテナー (Straightener).

LOL, GOOD ONE

I'm a fan of あふれる、幸せ（しあわせ）、いつも、運命（うんめい ）、and 黄色い鳥（きいろいとり）。
Okay, TECHNICALLY, that last one is either a description of a bird or a Rilakkuma character, but it's so fun to say!
And the others, while they sound like I plucked them from a love song, just sound ethereal to me especially with their meanings. :3

殺す - korosu - to kill
滅 - metsu - destroy

I like these because to me they sound so harsh, like their meaning. Speaking of..

意味 - imi - meaning (VERY useful word!)

But now I've written that, more and more are popping into my head.

大変 - taihen - very/immense/terrible
続く - tsudzuku - follow/continue (because its the only word I know which uses づ　)

and I'll stop there before I go on forever.

終わる - owaru - finish ;)

GAMBATTE!!- Do your best- Fun to say

Usa-chan- Awsomest animal out there!! Love'ya bunny!!

私（わたし）の好（す）きな言葉（ことば）は　守 ・ 破 ・ 離（しゅはり）　です。

守 /syu/　
師匠（ししょう）の言（い）うことを忠実（ちゅうじつ ）に守（まも）り基礎（きそ）をしっかり学（まな）ぶ

破 /ha/
それができたら、少（すこ）しづつ殻（から）を破（や ぶ）り、自分（じぶん）らしい色（いろ）をつけていく

離 /ri /
基礎（きそ）に自分（じぶん）の色（いろ）をつけたら 、離（はな）れてオリジナル化（か）する。

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I like a lot the word Baka xD and also Ittadakimasu xD