{"id":317,"date":"2013-06-05T12:53:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/?page_id=317"},"modified":"2013-06-05T12:53:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:53:56","slug":"desu-genki-i-chapter-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/grammar-index\/genki-i-ii-grammar-index\/desu-genki-i-chapter-1\/","title":{"rendered":"desu ( Genki I Chapter 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><div align=\"center\">\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p><strong>X \u306f Y \u3067\u3059<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;It is 12:30.&#8221; &#8220;I am a student.&#8221; These are sentences that can be translated into Japanese using an appropriate noun and the word\u00a0<i>desu.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">\uff5e\u3067\u3059\u3002\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000It is &#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3058\u3085\u3046\u306b\u3058\u306f\u3093\u3067\u3059\u3002\u3000\u3000\u3000(It) is half past twelve \u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000<span>Juunniji han desu.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u304c\u304f\u305b\u3044\u3067\u3059\u3002\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000 (I) am a student.<br \/>\n<span>Gakusei desu. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Similarly, one can use the pattern X\u00a0<i>wa<\/i>\u00a0Y\u00a0<i>desu<\/i>\u00a0to identify a person or a thing X as item Y.<br \/>\n<b><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\">X \u306f Y\u3000\u3067\u3059\u3002 \u3000\u3000\u3000X is Y. As for X, it is Y.<\/span><\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\u308f\u305f\u3057\u3000\u306f\u3000\u30b9\u30fc\u30fb\u30ad\u30e0\u3000\u3067\u3059\u3002 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 I am Sue Kim.<span><br \/>\nWatashi wa Suu Kimu desu.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><big><span><big>\u3084\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3055\u3093\u306f\u3000\u305b\u3093\u305b\u3044\u3067\u3059\u3002\u3000\u3000 \u00a0Mr Yamashita is a teacher.<\/big><\/span><\/big><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><big><span><big>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000<small>Yamashita san wa sensei desu.<\/small><\/big><\/span><\/big><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X \u306f Y \u3067\u3059 &#8220;It is 12:30.&#8221; &#8220;I am a student.&#8221; These are sentences that can be translated into Japanese using an appropriate noun and the word\u00a0desu. \uff5e\u3067\u3059\u3002\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000It is &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":0,"parent":252,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-317","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}