Konnichiwa

Weather has been kind to us recently, though we still have cold days. When it is a sunny day we feel much warmer even if the temperature is not so high. We also come across to see the signs of Spring has come!!! For example, new sprouts and buds of trees & plants, and the spring flower, Daffodil (すいせん/suisen), Camellia (つばき/tsubaki), they are already open and they looks so pretty don’t they!

In February. I introduced some Winter words and hope you enjoyed them. Today I introduce some simple words which are related to Spring. I must say that learning Japanese is far more difficult than learning English. While English language has one character of alphabet, Japanese language has three characters of katakana and Kanji and grammatically how to structure sentences is totally different from English. For that reasons, it is sometimes discouraging to study. However, learning simple words can be easy way to start.

You might have already known some of them! Hope this blog is of any help for your study. I states English words, Japanese words, it’s kanji and it’s hiragana.

Let’s try!!!

Spring Snow Shunsetsu

春雪　

しゅんせつ

SRING RAIN haru same

春雨

はるさめ

SPRING WIND haru kaze

春 風

はるかぜ

SPRING FROST haru gasumi

春霞

はるがすみ

HAZY MOON oboro zuki

朧月

　おぼろづき

SPRING DAWN haru no aktuki

春の暁

はるのあかつき

　

THE FIRST STRONG SOUTH

WINDS OF THE YEAR

haru ichiban

春一番　はるいちばん

SPRING NIGHT shunya

春夜

しゅんや

BUDS tsubomi

蕾

　つぼみ

NEW SPROUT shinme　

新芽

しんめ

CHERRY BLOSSOMS　sakura

桜

さくら

SPRING SUNLIGHT/

SCENERY OF SPRING

shunkou 春光

しゅんこう

SPRING TIDE shun chou

春潮

しゅんちょう

SPRING FILED haru no nohara

春の野原

はるののはら

WARBLER uguisu

鶯

うぐいす

Japanese Onomatopoeia can be used for Spring

ぎおんご

We express various sounds, which are surrounding us and hear, in words, that is onomatopoeia (giongo). Compare with English language, Japanese language has much more onomatopoeia. We quite often use them. Describing animated lives, vehicles, human beings, nature and our life style. I have outlined some of them below which may be used to express for Spring. Do you know them?

For example, growing rapidly, quickly or healthily we says “suku suku” to sodatsu. “sodatsu” mean to “grow”.

THANK YOU arigato ありがとう

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoy and learn something new. Let’s keep on learning more Japanese words!!!