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GOT IT!!! THANKS!!!
Thank you much!!! :P As always!
Ok!! Thank you!!!!!! Thank you SOO MUCH!!!! It was a REALLY big help!!
Let me make sure I understand though.
If you see two kanji side-by-side, unless there’s some goofy exception,You’d use the on’yomi readings of both?
And if you see kanji then hiragana, or just kanji, use the kun’yomi reading!
That was very helpful. Thank you!
I think the most important thing for me to do is basically study the readings given!
And when I see those two sentences, I know not to confuse them. They’re both meaning essentially the same thing. Mainly Kun’Yomi.Both of you are amazing! That clicked instantly!
I was unaware that it was one of those wonky oddballs.
That list of compounds was almost exactly what I was looking for!! (I basically needed other examples in which it was used and mashed next to other hiragana/kanji to see how pronunciation would change!)
And the explanation of つ cleared it all up!
*high fives you both* You guys get some brownie points!! :)
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!! :D
ありがとうThanks for the suggestions.
This website and source has been quite resourceful for me thus far. I’m not confused about the way the lessons are taught, I am simply confused by my personal grasp of the content.
If you have an answer or further explanation, it would be greatly appreciated.
OK!! Whoo!! I’m sorry I wasn’t understanding earlier. It really shouldn’t be as complicated as it is. Well, QUITE as complicated as it is. I have a tendency to overthink a lot of things.
I know that I just have to take all of this REALLY slowly and make sure I study hard enough! And make sure I’m studying the right thing!
To think of another example (which hopefully isn’t going to confuse matters): the character 下 has several kun’yomi, so when we encounter it in a sentence, how do we know which one to use? From the okurigana attached:
- If we see it as 下がる, we know that it’s read as さがる
- If we see it as 下る, we know that it’s read as くだる
- If we see it as 下りる, we know that it’s read as おりるOK, so I should look at the kanji, see what comes after it, and depending on what comes after it, use the appropriate pronunciation??? Is that right?
Of course, that’s only in the case that there is multiple pronunciations.
I GET IT!!!!!! I GET IT!!! WHOOO!!!
And this will also make more sense when I get into more kanji too, I’m sure.
So, Basically, it comes down to the sentence structure. Not the individual word.
Adding the tsu changes the pronunciation and the order it’s placed in in a Japanese sentence. But overall the word and the concept of the sentence remains the same!!
Is THAT right???!
Goodness. I feel like I’m being a bother.
Haha!! Wow, thanks so much!! This has helped me a TON!!! :D
Lemme just re-hash so I’m sure I got it.
Since 一（いち）is specifically a number that stands alone, you would use the on’yomi pronunciation, which is いち. But if you’re counting a number of objects, say one Basketball, or one dog, etc., You would use the kun’yomi, 一つ（insert noun). So you would (I’m gonna use romaji for my own understanding here) i chi tsu [noun]???? Is that right????? Goodness, I’m sorry to have you keep explaining this. But like I said, I wanna make sure it’s right in my head first.Thanks SSSSOOOOOOO much again!! :D
AAHH!! Thanks so much. It may have been long, but it was EXACTLY the answer I was looking for.
I’ve only really just gotten into kanji and radicals. I think my confusion lies right around here.
Here are the two vocab words for this kanji. Read through the info below each vocab word to get hints on how to learn them more effectively than trying to do pure memorization.
a 一（いち）＝ One
Meaning: This vocab word means the same thing as the kanji, making it easy to remember.
Reading: The reading is the same as the on’yomi you just learned, also making it easy to remember.
a 一つ（ひとつ）＝ One (thing)Meaning: This vocab means “One Thing” – i.e. one bicycle, one computer, one ____.
Reading: This vocab uses the kun’yomi reading. You can tell it’s a kun’yomi reading because it has some hiragana sticking out of it, meaning you can also guess part of the pronunciation (you know it ends with つ). As long as you can remember that this word means “one thing,” you can use that to think about counting things. Imagine yourself counting He-Toes (He-Man Toes), and only getting to two (つ) of them. “He-Toe One. He-Toe Two…”(Again, I’m sorry for being only this far, I have so much farther to go. I just want to make sure I get this right from the start so I’m doing EVERYTHING right.
