Japanese

In Japanese, the phrase “I am great” is expressed as 元気です. A response used to say that you are healthy and doing well when someone asks how you are.

The name of the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, ‘m’, is written in Japanese as エム.

The English phrase ‘eat it’ is translated into Japanese as 食べて. 食べて is used to tell someone to consume food.

In Japanese, the phrase for “undecided major” is 専攻未定.

The English word turkey refers to the bird in the genus Meleagris, which is 七面鳥 (shichimenchō) in Japanese.

To say “I am korean” in Japanese, use 韓国人です. This phrase is used to identify one’s nationality as being from South Korea.

Anime uses different words for older and younger brothers. An older brother is お兄ちゃん (onii-chan) or 兄さん (nii-san). A younger brother is 弟 (otōto).

In hiragana, “netball” is ねっとぼーる (nettobōru). Because it is a foreign sport name, Japanese normally writes it in katakana as ネットボール (nettobōru).

The phrase ‘someone is pretty’ is translated into Japanese as きれいな人.

The English word smartass can be translated into Japanese as 自惚れ屋. In Japanese, 自惚れ屋 refers to someone who is particularly insolent.