Module 7 |

Lesson 1 – Verbs
GO, COME, and
RETURN HOME
Prepared by: Donita Rose M. Macalalad
 Learning Outcomes:

• At the end of this lesson, you should be

able to:
• translate vocabulary introduced in the
lesson,
• use the correct particles in your
sentences, and
• construct sentences applying the patterns
discussed.
 Vocabulary
• Go ikimasu
• Come kimasu
• Go Home, Return kaerimasu
• School gakkou
• Supermarket su-pa-
• Station eki
• Airplane hikouki
• Ship fune
• Electric Train densha
•
• Subway, underground chikatetsu
• Bullet train shinkansen
• Bus basu
• Taxi takushi-
• Bicycle jitensha
• On foot aruite
• Person, people hito
• Friend tomodachi
• He, boyfriend kare
• She, girlfriend kanojo
• Family kazoku
• Alone, by oneself hitoride
• Last week senshuu
• This week konshuu
• Next week raishuu
• Last month sengetsu
• This month kongetsu
• Next month raigetsu
• Last year kyonen
• This year kotoshi
• Next year rainen
• ~th month of the year ~gatsu
• What month nangatsu
• ~ th day of the month, days ~nichi
• Which day of the month / nannichi
• how many days
• When itsu
• Let’s start constructing sentences.
And for this lesson, the following are
your patterns.
• Tanjoubi wa itsu desu ka.
• To ask for one’s birthday, the interrogative
word ITSU is used.
• Example : Tanaka san no tanjoubi wa itsu
desu ka. (When is Mr. Tanaka’s birthday?)
• (Feb.3) Tanaka san no tanjoubi wa
Nigatsu Mikka desu.
• Example : Tanaka san no tanjoubi wa
itsu desu ka. (When is Mr. Tanaka’s
birthday?)

• (Feb.3) Nigatsu Mikka desu.

• To ask for the DATE today,
tomorrow , or yesterday or the date of
an event, NANGATSU NANNICHI is
used. NANGATSU is is WHAT
MONTH in English

while NANNICHI is WHAT DAY OF

THE MONTH. Hence, a question that
uses NANGATSU NANNICHI is
asking for the DATE.
Example : Kyou wa nangatsu nannichi
desu ka. (What is the date today?)
(February 3) ... Kyou wa NIGATSU
MIKKA desu.
If the date asked is in the past, use
DESHITA.
Example : Kinou wa nangatsu nannichi
deshita ka.
(February 2) ... Kinou wa NIGATSU
FUTSUKA deshita.
• SUBJECT WA PLACE HE (or NI) VERB.
•In this sentence pattern, the VERB is one
of the three verbs (IKIMASU, KIMASU, or
KAERIMASU) introduced in the module.
The verbs indicate movement to a certain
place. The VERB may be in the
present/future-positive, present/future-
negative, past-positive, or past-negative
form. Hence, if the verb is the verb “TO GO”,
you can use any of its forms – IKIMASU,
IKIMASEN, IKIMASHITA, or IKIMASEN
• PLACE is where the subject goes, comes
or returns to. It is marked by a particle,
either HE or NI, which is equivalent to the
English preposition TO. PLACE can be a
specific name of a place or a pronoun
referring to a place such as KOKO,
SOKO, or ASOKO.
• Example : Tanaka san wa ginkou he ikimasu. (Mr.
Tanaka goes / will go to the bank.)
• SUBJECT PLACE VERB
• Kinou, Tanaka san wa ginkou he ikimashita.
(Yesterday, Mr. Tanaka went to the bank.)
• SUBJECT PLACE VERB
•SUBJECT WA DOKO HE (or NI) VERB KA.
• This is a question pattern which
uses the interrogative word DOKO or in
English, WHERE. To answer the question,
replace DOKO with a PLACE.
Example : Ashita, anata
wa doko he ikimasu ka. (Where will you go
tomorrow?)
• Ashita,
watashi wa gakkou he ikimasu. (Tomorrow, I
will go to school.)
 •If you do not, did not or will not go
anywhere, do not drop DOKO. Instead, use
MO after DOKO and make your verb
negative.
• Example : Ashita, anata
wa doko he ikimasu ka. ( Where will you go
tomorrow?) ...
Ashita, watashi wa DOKO MO
IKIMASEN. (Tomorrow, I will not go
anywhere.)
•SUBJECT WA N DE PLACE HE/NI VERB.
• In this pattern, VERB is again
one of the three verbs introduced in the
module while PLACE can be a specific
name of a place or a pronoun referring to
aplace.The additional part in this part is
the N, which is actually a means of
transportation. N is followed by the
particle DE which is equivalent to the
English preposition “BY”.
•Example : Tanaka
san wa jidousha de gakkou he ikimasu. (Mr.
Tanaka goes / will go to school by car.)
• SUBJECT N PLACE VERB
 •If the subject goes, comes or returns to a
place “on foot” , ARUITE is used. The
particle DE is no longer needed.

• Example : Watashi wa aruite

gakkou he ikimasu. ( I go/ will go to school
on foot.)
•SUBJECT WA NAN
DE PLACE HE/NI VERB KA.
• In this question pattern, the interrogative
word NAN is used. Yes, NAN means what
but in this pattern, NAN is followed by the
particle DE ; hence, we will interpret the
question as “by what means” (of
transportation). Another way of putting it is,
“How does the subject go, come or return to
a place?”
•To answer the question, simply drop
NAN and replace it with a means of
 •Example : Anata wa nan de gakkou
he ikimasu ka. (By what means do you go
to school? Or How do you go to school?”
• . . . Watashi
wa jidousha de gakkou he ikimasu. (I go to
school by car.)
•SUBJECT WA PERSON TO PLACE
HE/NI VERB .
• In this sentence pattern, the verb is one of
the three verbs introduced in the module.
•The new part introduced here
is PERSON, which can be a specific name (like
Yamada san) of a person. It can also be a
common noun (such as GAKUSEI) pertaining
to person or a pronoun referring to a person
including WATASHI or ANATA. PERSON is
followed by the particle TO which is equivalent
to the English preposition WITH.
• Example : Tanaka san wa tomodachi
to gakkou he ikimasu. (Mr. Tanaka goes to
school with a friend.)
• SUBJECT PERSON PLACE VERB
•If the subject goes, comes or returns to a
place ALONE , HITORIDE is used. The
particle TO is no longer needed.
• Example : Watashi wa hitoride gakkou
he ikimasu. (I go to school by myself. )
•SUBJECT WA DARE TO PLACE
HE/NI VERB KA.
• In this question In this pattern, the
interrogative word DARE, which means
WHO, is used. To answer the question,
replace DARE with a person (noun or
pronoun).
•
• Example : Ashita, anata wa dare to
kyoukai he ikimasu ka. (Who will you go
to church with tomorrow?)
• . . . Ashita, watashi
wa KAZOKU to kyoukai he ikimasu. ( I
will go to church with the family tomorrow.)
• NANJI ( what time) and ITSU (when)
• The interrogative words NANJI
and ITSU may also be used together with
the verbs IKIMASU, KIMASU and
KAERIMASU. In that case, using NANJI
or ITSU allows us to ask WHAT time or
WHEN a subject goes, comes or returns to
a place. The specific time or the specific
date which answers NANJI or ITSU is
marked by the particle NI.
•
•Example : Ashita, anata wa NANJI ni kyoukai he ikimasu ka.
( What time will you to church tomorrow?)
• . . . Ashita, watashi wa GOZEN SHICHIJI HAN ni kyoukai
he ikimasu. (I will go to church at 7 : 30 A.M. tomorrow.)
•
• Tanaka san wa ITSU Firipin he kimashita ka.
( When did Mr. Tanaka come to the Philippines?
• . . . Tanaka san wa NIGATSU MIKKA ni Firipin he
kimashita. (Mr. Tanaka came to the Philippines on February 3.)