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fuku 服 clothes
kimono 着物 kimono
nekutai ネクタイ necktie

keshō-hin 化粧品 cosmetics

omocha おもちゃ toy
kagu 家具 furniture

megane めがね glasses, spectacles
tokei 時計 watch; clock

bunbōgu 文房具 stationery
akusesarī アクセサリー accessories

GRAMMAR NOTE More Classifiers -kai, -do/-kai

The classifier for floors of a building is -kai/-gai 階 and the classifiers for
counting the number of times are -do and -kai 回 (recall Mō ichi-do onegai-
shimasu. “One more time, please.”) Note the difference between these two
questions:

Nan-kai arimasu ka. “How many floors are there?”

Nan-kai ni arimasu ka. “On which floor is it?”

floors times/occasions
1 ik-kai ichi-do ik-kai

2 ni-kai ni-do ni-kai
3 san-kai/san-gai san-do san-kai

4 yon-kai yon-do yon-kai
5 go-kai go-do go-kai
6 rok-kai roku-do rok-kai

7 nana-kai nana-do nana-kai
8 hachi-kai/hak-kai hachi-do hachi-kai/hak-kai

9 kyū-kai kyū-do kyū-kai
10 juk-kai/jikkai jū-do juk-kai/jikkai

11 nan-kai nan-do nan-kai

CULTURAL NOTE Depa-chika “The Basement of a Department