Vocabulary Sprints
Lesson 3 of 40
Vocabulary Sprint v03 — clothes, and why a hat is not worn
about 12 minutes
After this lesson you can
- Choose 着る, はく, かぶる, する or かける for a given garment.
- Use 黄色 and 緑 before a noun, which needs い or の rather than nothing.
Words this lesson teaches
- 服
- clothes — the general word, and it takes 着る
- 洋服
- Western clothes — named against 和服; in practice 服 is what people say
- ワイシャツ
- a business shirt — from white shirt, reanalysed in Japanese as ワイ
- セーター
- a jumper, a sweater — 着る, because it goes over the shoulders
- コート
- a coat — and, separately, a tennis court
- 背広
- a men's suit — dated; w10's スーツ is the current word
- ズボン
- trousers — legs, so はく and never 着る
- スカート
- a skirt — legs again, so はく
- 靴下
- socks — 靴 shoe plus 下 under, so under-shoes; はく
- 靴
- shoes — はく, and taken off at the door of a Japanese home
- スリッパ
- slippers — what you put on indoors once the 靴 are off
- 帽子
- a hat or cap — the head, so かぶる, and never 着る
- ネクタイ
- a tie — it fastens, so ネクタイを する; しめる also works
- 眼鏡
- glasses — 眼 eye plus 鏡, the mirror of w09; and they take かける
- ハンカチ
- a handkerchief — clipped from ハンカチーフ, by the rule w09 gave
- ポケット
- a pocket
- ボタン
- a button — on a shirt and on a machine alike
- 財布
- a wallet, a purse — 財 wealth plus 布 cloth, from w11c
- 洗濯
- laundry, washing clothes — 洗濯する, and 洗 is the 洗 of 洗う
- せっけん
- soap — written 石鹸; the syllabus glosses it "Economy", which is simply wrong
- 黄色
- yellow — a noun; before another noun it needs 黄色い or 黄色の
- 緑
- green — a noun only, so 緑の and never 緑い
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.