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Pachinko パチンコ Japanese pinball

Sports and Physical Activities
yoga ヨガ yoga

dansu ダンス dance

basuke(tto bōru) バスケットボール basketball
yakyū 野球 baseball

GRAMMAR NOTE [Purpose] Ni Iku “Go to Do X”

Earlier we saw that the /X ni iku/ means “go to X” and X stands for the goal of
the movement. Therefore, X is usually a location. When X is NOT a location,
this pattern usually means “go to do X” and X indicates the purpose for going.
The purpose X is presented by two kinds of items: action nouns and verb stems
(the portion before masu).

• Action nouns: benkyō “study”, renshū “practice”, kaimono “shopping”
Tokyo ni kaimono ni ikimasu. I’ll go to Tokyo for shopping.

Toshokan ni benkyō ni ikimashita. I went to the library to study.
• Verb stems
Kōhī o kai ni ikimasu. I’ll go to buy coffee.

Nani o shi ni iku n desu ka. What are you going there to do?

GRAMMAR NOTE Informal Negative Forms of Verbs

Each verb group has different conjugation rules to make the Informal Negative
forms.

U-Verbs

In order to make the negative form of a verb in this group, change the final u of
the affirmative form to anai.
nomimasu → nomu → nomanai not drink

If there is no consonant before u as in kau “buy”, drop u and add wanai.

kaimasu → kau → kawanai not buy
tsukaimasu → tsukau → tsukawanai not use