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WorksheetsRJT 2 母・毎・父
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 38mins
In our last episode, you learned that this is supposed to look like a woman sitting cross-legged.
女
男
人
子
Practice writing 女（おんな）woman again
In our last episode, you learned that this is a stick-figure person. Practice writing 人（ひと）
Now, if that woman becomes a mother, she is going to need breasts to feed her baby. Ask me about the time I was drawing the evolution of this kanji on the board and the principal walked in.
mother 母
ぼ
はは
おかあさん
おかさん
”Mr. Oka”
”Mrs. Oka”
母
はは
Be humble!
おかあさん
お母さん
母
Be polite!
You want to be polite when talking TO your own mother
These are the same answers as talking about someone else's mom
Column 3 おかあさん
Column 3 お母さん
Match the following
Honorific 「お」。This "softens" what you are going to say
お
the kanji
母（かあ）
Polite ending
さん
Things that get an honorific 「お」 , because they are important and you want to speak reverently of them
water (おみず）
Sushi（おすし）
Mother（お母さん）
Father（お父さん）
Grandpa（おじいさん）
Grandmother（おばあさん）
Mr. Policeman （おまわりさん）
little brothers
little sisters
older brother（おにいさん）
older sister（おねえさん）
The bathroom（おトイレ）
Now, remember that it is really hard to chisel concepts like "blue" as a picture into a rock. So for this next word, the story is "Every person has a mother." That gives us the meaning of "every."
Combine "person" and "mother."
毎
行
日本人
休
体
毎
まい
There is no くんよみ
まえ
Practice writing ”Every” 毎（まい）
Match the following
Every day
毎日（まいにち）
Every person
毎人（まいびと）
Every time ("Thank you for coming in to my store every time")
毎度（まいど）
Every single day, day after day
毎日毎日（まいにちまいにち）
Every month
毎月（まいつき）
We're going to front-load ”father."
父
母
女
男
父
ちち
Be humble!
おとうさん
お父さん
父
Be polite!
You want to be polite when talking TO your own father
These are the same answers as talking about someone else's dad
Column 3 おとうさん
Column 3 お父さん
Father 父
ちち
ふ
おとうさん
おとさん
”Mr. Oto”
”Mrs. Oto”
Practice writing 父（ちち）
