2-2 Currency and Counting

Question 1

How much is this?

Answer 1

Kore wa ikura desu ka?

Question 2

Excuse me. How much is this map?

Answer 2

Sumimasen. Kono chizu wa ikura desu ka?

Question 3

Um, how much is this guidebook?

Answer 3

Ano, kono gaidobukku wa ikura desu ka?

Question 4

Do you have memory cards [digital cameras, household batteries]?

Answer 4

Memorii kaado [dejikame, kandenchi] ga arimasu ka?

Question 5

No, we don’t have them.

Answer 5

Iie, arimasen.

Question 6

The map section is this way.

Answer 6

Chizu koonaa wa koCHIra desu.

Question 7

Yes, the magazine section is that way.

Answer 7

Hai, ZASshi koonaa wa soCHIra desu.

Question 8

The camera department is that way over there.

Answer 8

Kamera uriba wa aCHIra desu. [“Uriba” refers to a large department within a store while “koonaa” would refer to a smaller section within the department.]

Question 9

Welcome! The luggage department is on the first [second - tenth] floor.

Answer 9

IRASSHAImase! KaBAN uriba wa ikKAI desu.

[nikai, sangai, yonkai, gokai, rokkai, nanakai, hakkai, kyuukai, jukkai]

Question 10

I’ll take this.

Answer 10

Kore kudasai. [lit: Please give me this thing.]

Question 11

Well then, I’ll take this shirt over there.

Answer 11

Jaa, ano shatsu kudasai.

Question 12

I’ll take that red-colored sweater.

Answer 12

Sono aka no seetaa kudasai.

Question 13

Is that right? Well then, I’ll take that blue-colored hat over there.

Answer 13

Soo desu ka? Jaa, ano ao no booshi kudasai.

Question 14

I’ll take five [picture] postcards.

Answer 14

[E]HAgaki go mai kudasai.

Question 15

Um, I’ll take three seventy-yen stamps.

Answer 15

Ano, nanajuu en kitte san mai kudasai.

Question 16

How much is that white T-shirt?

Answer 16

Sono shiro no tiishatsu wa ikura desu ka?

Question 17

Excuse me. I’ll take two of these white-colored T-shirts and one of those black-colored T-shirts.

Answer 17

Sumimasen. Kono shiro no tiishatsu ni mai to sono kuro no tiishatsu ichi mai kudasai.

Question 18

It’ll be five hundred yen in total.

Answer 18

Zenbu de gohyaku en desu.

Question 19

The picture postcard is one hundred yen a piece.

Answer 19

Ehagaki wa ichi mai hyaku en desu. [Use “ichi mai” for “apiece” when referring to thin, flat objects.]

Question 20

Is this umbrella three hundred yen or four hundred yen?

Answer 20

Kono kasa wa, sanbyaku en desu ka, yonhyaku en desu ka?

Question 21

The small sunscreen is six hundred sixty yen.

Answer 21

Chiisai hiyakedome wa roppyaku rokujuu en desu.

Question 22

Here you go. It’ll be eight hundred ninety-nine yen in total.

Answer 22

Doozo. Zenbu de happyaku kyuujuu kyuu en desu.

Question 23

One hundred plus two hundred equals three hundred.

Answer 23

Hyaku taSU nihyaku wa sanbyaku desu.

Question 24

Eight hundred minus seven hundred eighty equals twenty.

Answer 24

Happyaku HIku nanahyaku hachijuu wa nijuu desu.

Question 25

Your change is twenty yen.

Answer 25

Otsuri wa nijuu en desu.

Question 26

Seventy times five equals three hundred fifty. It’ll be three hundred fifty yen in total.

Answer 26

Nanajuu kakeru go wa sanbyaku gojuu desu. Zenbu de sanbyaku gojuu en desu.

Question 27

I will buy a sweater at the department store.

Answer 27

Depaato de seetaa o kaimasu.

Question 28

I bought an umbrella at a convenience store today. The price was four hundred yen.

Answer 28

Kyoo konbini de kasa o kaimashita. NeDAN wa yonhyaku en deshita.

Question 29

Was the price of the umbrella four hundred yen?

Answer 29

Kasa no neDAN wa yonhyaku en deshita ka?

Question 30

No, it wasn’t four hundred yen. It was six hundred yen, you know.

Answer 30

Iie, yonhyaku en dewa arimasendeshita. Roppyaku en deshita yo.

Question 31

What did you buy?

Answer 31

Nani o kaimashita ka?

Question 32

I bought a sweater and a shoulder bag.

Answer 32

Seetaa to shorudaa baggu o kaimashita.

Question 33

I didn’t buy anything.

Answer 33

Nani mo kaimasendeshita. [Use “nani mo” with negative verb.]

Question 34

What did you do yesterday?

Answer 34

Ki-noo, nani o shimashita ka?

Question 35

I didn’t do anything.

Answer 35

Nani mo shimasendeshita.

Question 36

I did some shopping at the shopping center yesterday.

Answer 36

Ki-noo, shoppingu sentaa de kaimono o shimashita.