Vocabulary Sprints
Lesson 30 of 40
Vocabulary Sprint w11a — the shop floor, and verbs wearing nouns' clothes
about 10 minutes
After this lesson you can
- Find the verb inside a noun like 売り場, 金持ち or 昼休み.
- Say why 湯 becomes お湯 in a kitchen, and ごちそう never loses its ご.
Words this lesson teaches
- 売り場
- a department, a counter — 売る trimmed, plus the 場 of 駐車場 from w05
- 食料品
- groceries, foodstuffs — 品 makes goods of anything, so it names a whole floor
- 値段
- a price — the syllabus writes it in kana; shops write 値段
- お金持ち
- a rich person — 金 plus 持つ trimmed; no gender, unlike the syllabus's gloss
- 昼休み
- the lunch break — 昼 noon plus 休む trimmed
- 湯
- hot water — as a bare word it belongs to bath houses; in a kitchen it is お湯
- ごちそう
- a feast, a fine meal — the ご never comes off, as in ごちそうさま
- ジャム
- jam — spread with 塗る, as w06b had it
- サラダ
- a salad
- サンドイッチ
- a sandwich — often shortened to サンド, by the rule from w09
- ステーキ
- a steak — grilled with 焼く, from w06b
- ぶどう
- grapes — and the ぶどう of ぶどう酒, wine
- アルコール
- alcohol — the substance, and drink in general; a drink itself is お酒
What it explains
売り場 and 食料品 are how a department store labels itself
The board by the lift lists floors as 食料品売り場, 婦人服売り場, 家電売り場, and once you can read 売り場 the rest is a noun you either know or can look up. 品 does the same work as a suffix: 食料品 is food-goods, 電化製品 is electrical goods, 化粧品 is cosmetics. This is the same collect-the-suffix habit as w07's 学 and w10's 館, and it is the reason a Japanese sign is easier to read than a Japanese sentence — signs are almost entirely compounds, and compounds are assembled from parts you can accumulate.
The scene itself is in the app.
Lesson one of this track is free to read in full. From lesson two on, the story, the audio and the review are part of a free account.