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Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...
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Grammatical abbreviations are generally written in full or small caps to visually distinguish them from the translations of lexical words. For instance, capital or small-cap PAST (frequently abbreviated to PST) glosses a grammatical past-tense morpheme, while lower-case 'past' would be a literal translation of a word with that meaning.
Japanese Original word Japanese Meaning bukatsu: 部活: bukatsudō: 部活動: after-school club (extracurricular) activity shāshin: シャー芯: shāpupen no shin: シャープペンシルの芯 (in colloquial language) lead of a mechanical pencil keitai: 携帯: keitaidenwa: 携帯電話: Mobile phone
Used for multiple hundreds in compound numerals. Often used to mean many. 100 mo 1 mo 1: 百日 mo 1 mo 1 ka (many days) Used for non-multiple hundred and for the number "100" by itself. Often used to mean many. 1000 ti: 千年 tito 2 se (1000 years, many years) Often used to mean many. 10000 yo 2 ro 2 du: 八百万 yapoyo 2 ro 2 du (8000000 ...
The Nippo Jisho (日葡辞書, literally the "Japanese–Portuguese Dictionary") or Vocabulario da Lingoa de Iapam (Vocabulário da Língua do Japão in modern Portuguese; "Vocabulary of the Language of Japan" in English) is a Japanese-to-Portuguese dictionary compiled by Jesuit missionaries and published in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1603.
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Sino-Japanese vocabulary, also known as kango (Japanese: 漢語, pronounced, "Han words"), is a subset of Japanese vocabulary that originated in Chinese or was created from elements borrowed from Chinese. Some grammatical structures and sentence patterns can also be identified as Sino-Japanese.