RJT 6 言う・話す・計る・舌・語

Here's a mouth　口 with words coming out of it．I means "to say" and is pronounced いう。

Is 言う a 1-step verb or a 5-step verb?

• 1-step!
  一だんどうし
  It's got an　い sound before the

• 5-step!
  五だんどうし

Let's inflect 言う（いう）according to あ・い・う・え・お

• I don't say　(plain form)

• 言う

• Let's say

• 言わない

  Psyche！Use わinstead of あ (Just like we don't say "a apple")

• I say (plain form)

• 言います

• I say (polite form)

• 言えます

• I am able to say (polite form)

• 言おう

Remember how 人 got squishified in 毎？More often, it gets squishified on the left side. This is a man saying things you can trust. It means trust and is pronounced しん

Is 信じる a 1-step verb or a 5-step verb?

• 1-step!
  一だんどうし
  It's got an　い sound before the

• 5-step!
  五だんどうし

Let's inflect the １-step verb 信じる。Just take off the -る and add our endings

• I believe (plain form)

• 信じます

• I believe (polite)

• 信じられません

• I can't believe it (polite form)

• 信じよう

• Let's believe!

• 信じる

• I don't believe verbs are this easy

• 信じない

Saying things 言う in groups of ten　十 means "to measure" and is pronounced　計る（はかる）。

To measure

Groups:

(a) おんよみ

,

(b) くんよみ

,

(c) other kanji that basically mean the same

,

(d) Not a pronunciation

• けい

• 測る（はかる）

• 量る（はかる）

• け

• はかる

Match the following

• 時計

• けいかくてき
  (according to plan)

• 計算機

• けいかく
  (a plan, meadured steps)

• 計り知れない

• とけい
  (a "time-measurer," a clock)

• 計画的

• はかりしれない
  ("unknowable measure" - unfathomable)

• 計画

• けいさんき
  ("an measure-add-machine" - a calculator)

OMG! Mme 先生、you were a professional translator! Did you ever do anything like this?

• Egad, no.

• Egad, no, but ask me how my colleague forgot to remove his notes from a Magic Eye book

• Egad, no, but ask me how a colleague mistranslated "lover" to "larva." Different situation, but still funny.

• Egad, no, but ask me about the Wikipedia article on one of my movies. Not quite the same thing, but still funny.

• Egad, no, but ask me about the time our client got a cease-and-desist letter from a large American comic book publisher.