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# japanese

«japanese» in Mova's school dictionary: **from or about Japan, an island country in East Asia** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (Japanese — with a capital J); noun (a Japanese person, the Japanese; Japanese — the language)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Japanese means from or about Japan, an island country in East Asia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/japanese/#m1)

2) The Japanese are the people of Japan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/japanese/#m2)

3) Japanese is the language of Japan, written with kanji, hiragana and katakana characters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/japanese/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life Japanese things such as sushi, origami, manga and anime are popular with children around the world. In geography lessons Japan is a chain of islands with many earthquakes and volcanoes, like Mount Fuji. In PE, judo and karate come from Japan. Phrases: «Japanese food», «speak Japanese», «Japanese culture», «Japanese garden».

### examples

- Sushi is a Japanese food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/japanese/#x1)
- We learned some Japanese words in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/japanese/#x2)
- Origami is the Japanese art of paper folding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/japanese/#x3)
- My pen pal is Japanese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/japanese/#x4)
- Japanese uses three kinds of writing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/japanese/#x5)
- Judo is a Japanese sport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/japanese/#x6)
- We visited a peaceful Japanese garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/japanese/#x7)
- «Arigato» means thank you in Japanese. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/japanese/#x8)
- The great Japanese general Momotaro has come to fight you and to take your stronghold from you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/japanese/#x9)

### note

Capital J always. Plural noun: «the Japanese» (no -s); for one person say «a Japanese person». Do not use «Jap» — it is a rude slur. Stress at the end: ja-pa-NEESE.

### In the corpora

- [Van Gogh painted his own versions of prints by the Japanese artist Hiroshige to learn from them, and that influence changed his style.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/35-copying-vs-being-inspired-tracing-covers-giving-credit/13/)
- [Japanese probes brought back dust from the asteroids Itokawa and Ryugu, and NASA's OSIRIS-REx returned samples from Bennu in 2023.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/9-asteroids-and-the-asteroid-belt/12/)
- [In 2017 a Japanese train company said sorry in public because a train left 20 seconds early.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/129-being-on-time-around-the-world/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «japanese» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/japanese/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.